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The United States considers putting conditions on food aid to North Korea in response to that country's admission that it has a nuclear weapons program. Moderates in the Bush administration are calling for a diplomatic solution. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

Essayist and "part-time" hotline operator Diane Roberts has tips on how to cure those turkey woes.

In the early 1900s, Billy Sunday sold what was then a unique brand of muscular, testosterone-laden Christianity. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with biographer Robert F. Martin about the influential preacher.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will have to postpone a major grant to Tanzania. The fund is uncertain about where the government intends to keep the money, and its use may be at odds with the organization's grant-giving policies. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports. (3:40)

Ruth Stone, 87, wins the National Book Award for poetry for her eighth book of verse, In the Next Galaxy. She talks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

To celebrate its 90th anniversary, Chicago-based Poetry magazine has released a collection of correspondence between the publication and renowned poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The book is called Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters.

It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries.

Iraq's foreign minister writes a letter to the United Nations complaining about the Security Council's resolution on disarmament, calling it a pretext for the United States to wage war on Iraq. NPR News reports.

Agreement Reached in West Coast Dock Dispute West Coast shipping companies and dockworkers reach an agreement on a six-year labor contract. If ratified, it would end a bitter dispute. A union vote is expected after Thanksgiving. Jason Lopez reports.

Troubled companies rush to appoint new chief executive officers to appease stockholders as scandals and losses continue to plague many of the country's biggest firms. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management.

NPR's Renee Montagne previews Tuesday's talk with former Beatle Paul McCartney about his new double CD and tour documentary. For the first time, he's embraced old Beatles tunes with a new band. (2:03)

The use of hand signaling in baseball goes back to the 1890s when a deaf ball player's coach started using hand signals to let the player know if the previous pitch was a strike or a ball -- maybe. Steve is joined by Josh Prager, senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal, to talk about the history of signing in America's pastime, and the questions that still surround its origin. Prager is currently writing a book about sign stealing in 1951 and the "Shot Heard Round the World."