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When international politics mixes with business, the course of commerce can get complicated. Americans negotiating a deal in England may find themselves defending their nation's foreign policy, or German companies may find it tougher dealing with U.S. firms because of their nation's stance against the Bush administration's plans for action in Iraq. NPR's Chris Arnold reports on how conducting foreign policy interacts with conducting business.

Wal-Mart, Target and some other online retailers start collecting sales tax on their online sales. The development might foretell big changes for Internet commerce and provide welcome revenue to states struggling to close budget shortfalls. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

He has made over 70 films, including Alfie, Sleuth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hannah and Her Sisters. Caine has worked with such directors as Brian DePalma, John Huston and Woody Allen. He's starring in the new film The Quiet American, based on the Graham Greene murder mystery centered on a love triangle set in the early 1950s, during the rebellion against French control of what is now Vietnam. This interview first aired November 17, 1992.

The Bush administration is raising the national terrorism alert from yellow to orange, signaling a "high risk" of terrorist attack. A government official says the move is based on an increase in intelligence that an attack may occur as Muslims mark the haj, a five-day ritual that begins Sunday. NPR News reports.

Secretary of State Colin Powell is set to address the U.N. Security Council tomorrow to present new evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons. NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Robert Siegel remark on how Powell's appearance at the United Nations is reminiscent of Adlai Stevenson's famous speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Vinyl records are once again the highest-grossing physical format for the music industry. The sales of vinyl exploded during the pandemic.

Two hundred years ago this year, Captain Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the Corps of Discovery set out on their 7,000-mile, two-year trek across the wilderness of the new West. The explorers kept meticulous diaries -- including details of what they ate. Now a new cookbook with authentic recipes gives readers a taste of what what the Corps cooked on their journey.

Some landlords got hurt by tenants who took advantage of eviction bans during the pandemic. Now they can't get any help from a massive $47 billion federal rental assistance program.

Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of Rust near Sante Fe, killing the film's director of photography and injuring the director, according to the sheriff's office of Santa Fe County, N.M.

NPR's Margot Adler visited a community in Brooklyn, New York that is home to many of the Pakistanis who traveled north to seek asylum in Canada. Thousands more have left their homes in the United States for other destinations.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Boston University History professor Robert Dallek about everything President George W. Bush has to juggle at this time, and compares it to other Presidents in history. Dallek is the author of Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents.

In the third part of a Morning Edition series on terrorism in Southeast Asia, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports Malaysian authorities now fear attacks could happen in their country, despite a crackdown on terrorist operatives. The primarily Muslim nation of 20 million people sandwiched between Thailand and Singapore has not yet been a terrorist target. But Malaysian authorities are worried that another Bali style bombing could happen in their country.