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The National Basketball Association says teams are no longer allowed to criticize one another on social media accounts. Two National Hockey League teams went into full mocking mode of the NBA memo.

A bear that was found walking around Bethesda, Md., has been returned to his natural home. But not before gaining a moment of Internet fame with two fake Twitter accounts created on his behalf.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said an intern had accidentally used the organization's account to respond to a tweet from Amnesty International.

Born in 1900, Anna Stoehr has seen dramatic shifts in technology. But when the Minnesota woman tried to create a Facebook account, she hit a snag. The service couldn't handle her early birthdate.

2: Scientists DR. JOSEPH B. MCCORMICK and DR. SUSAN FISHER-HOCH. Their book, in collaboration with Leslie Alan Horvitz, is "Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC" (Turner Publishing, Inc). It's a personal account of this husband/wife team's work with the world's most horrible diseases: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS.... MCCORMICK was instrumental in the creation of the high-tech "hot zone" lab at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. He spent many years researching and treating patients in remote areas of the world and is now chairman of the Community Health Sciences Department of Aga Khan University in Pakistan. FISHER-HOCH was a pioneer in research on Legionnaire's Disease, Ebola and Lassa Fever. She is currently a professor at Aga Khan University.

Writer BEN HAMPER. His funny first-person account of working in GM's auto factory is "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line" (Warner Books). HAMPER is a third generation auto worker in Flint, Michigan. He first started writing when he submitted articles to the alternative newspaper, "The Flint Voice." The editor then was Michael Moore, who made the documentary "Roger and Me." Hamper appeared in Moore's documentary and also in the short lived TV program "TV Nation." In 1995 he appeared in "Canandian Bacon," a film starring John Candy. Last year, he moved from the factory town of Flint to Sutton's Bay, MI. (Rebroadcast, originally aired 8/19/91.

U.S. and U.N. officials agree -- Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration comes up short. Secretary of State Colin Powell goes so far as to say Iraq is in material breach of a Security Council resolution. And a former U.N. biological weapons inspector explains some of the holes in Iraq's account. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, and hear from former weapons inspector Raymond Zilinskas.

Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

KENNETH KAMLER, MD is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles: I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamlers day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. Hes done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

Journalist Jack Newfield's close work with Robert F. Kennedy during the last year of his life informs Newfield's 1969 book, RFK: A Memoir, which offers a first-hand account of the assassinated politician and attempts to separate the man from myth.

How did the attack on the U.S. Capitol come together? What did President Trump know and why did he take so long to respond? And who will be held accountable?

The government said that to make social media platforms accountable, it has asked the companies to register and open an office in Nepal, pay taxes and abide by the country's laws and regulations.