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The U.S. has pledged to deliver 1.1 billion doses of COVID vaccines to countries in need. Billions more are needed. NPR interviewed the State Department's global vaccine coordinator to learn more.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London that European Nations are preparing to lift sanctions against Serbia. European Union foreign ministers will meet Monday, and plan to announce an end to bans on investment, travel and trade.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Requiem for a Dream which opens in New York today without a rating, but with a theater-enforced ban on viewers under 17 years of age. The producers are protesting a rating of NC-17 from the Motion Picture Association due to the sex in the film. The producers claim the industry is over-reacting to election rhetoric. Even seasoned movie critics, however, find the sex hard to watch.

A Brazilian woman is fined for not wearing a motorcycle crash helmet, but she has an excellent alibi.

By the end of the 2020s, Blue Origin says its planned Orbital Reef commercial space station will become "the premier mixed-use space station in low Earth orbit for commerce, research, and tourism."

A group of Sikh men broke religious protocol to help hikers stuck near raging waters at a Canadian park. The men created a makeshift rope using turbans and jackets.

Actor John Spencer. He plays Leo McGarry, the Chief of Staff to the President in the tv series The West Wing. The show won the coveted Peabody Award in its first season. This week it began it's second season. The show is set in the Whitehouse, and concerning a fictional democratic President and his staff. In the first season of the show, Spencer's character has had to deal with his former alcoholism becoming a matter of public scrutiny. Spencer previously was a regular on L.A. Law and began his career on The Patty Duke Show.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush about his life on the campaign trail. For an extended version of this interview, click here.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with singer Aaron Neville about the ups and downs of his 30 year music career. Neville has just released Devotion, his first-ever collection of inspirational songs and a new book, The Brothers, which tells of his colorful past encompassing drug addiction, burglary and chart- topping records.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Colombo, Sri Lanka on the upcoming parliamentary elections there. Many view the election as a chance for the public to weigh in on the current President's plan to rewrite Sri Lanka's constitution in an effort to end the island's civil war.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Yugoslavia where allies of newly-installed president Vojislav Kostunica say he will start his term by calling for the dismissal of the Serbian government. The government of Yugoslavia's largest republic strongly favors ousted president Slobodan Milosevic.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Palestinian political analyst, Ghassan Katib, about the Palestinian reaction to the escalating conflict in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has issued an ultimatum to Palestinian leaders to end the violence by tonight or he will use any means to restore order.