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The Belfast Giants, a hockey team made up of American and Canadian players, is enjoying great popularity in the capital of Northern Ireland. Laura Haydon reports.

A recently unearthed ditty from crooner Wayne Newton....the Newton Rascal Boogie, recorded with his brother, Jerry, in the mid 1950's for the Lou King Rangers television show.

Ahead of his delivery of a Jefferson Lecture in Washington, D.C., playwright Arthur Miller talks about his lecture topic: Politics and the Art of Acting. He calls it an "attempt to contrast the sincerity of certain people with the performance psychology of so many of them," from FDR, Clinton and Gore to Reagan and George W. Bush.

John recounts the tale of his tiny hometown's high school basketball team which made it to the state finals in 1968.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Indonesia on President Abdur Rachman Wahid problems.

John Ydstie discusses the markets and the economic outlook with Mark Zandi of economy.com and Diane Swonk of Banc One.

JY/Reel Therapy-- John talks to Dr. Gary Solomon, a man who believes that Hollywood can help you solve your problems.

We've got some age-appropriate entertainment ideas for the little goblins in your lives.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports the I.R.S. is auditing fewer and fewer tax returns these days and that has some observers concerned that some taxpayers will be tempted to cheat. I.R.S. Chairman Charles Rossotti blamed the decline on staff shortages, antiquated computers and I.R.S. reform legislation passed in 1998.

Linda Wertheimer talks wtih Vikram Parekh, Researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch about Human Rights Watch's lastest report, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, which gives eye witness accounts of a massacre in January in the central highlands of Afghanistan, as well as new evidence related to an earlier massacre last May. During both events, the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group, previously targeted by Taliban forces for abuse. Afghan humanitarian aid workers were also killed.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on President Bush's first formal news conference since taking office.

For the people of LaPlace, La. the destruction of Hurricane Ida was on another level. And that has some residents considering moving away before the next one.