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Lawmakers in the House have voted to cut U.S. funding to the United Nations, unless the body agrees to a list of reforms. NPR's Juan Williams analyzes the vote and the chances of John Bolton becoming U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

Republican Brian Echevarria says a commercial against him was racist. It may have helped the Democratic candidate win a Cabarrus County House seat, helping the Democrats block a Republican supermajority in the General Assembly.

Witnesses on the third day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry include Alexander Vindman, Tim Morrison and Jennifer Williams, first hand witnesses to President Trump's July 25 call.

Two new films about men who find flexibility late in life, "Living" and "A Man Called Otto," are remakes of acclaimed foreign films: Director Akira Kurosawa's "Ikuru" and Sweden's "A Man Called Ove."

SIMON/ SNOWFLAKES: SCOTT SPEAKS WITH RESEARCH BIOLOGIST WILLIAM WERGIN WHO HAS PROVIDED THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY WITH VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT SNOWFLAKES --- THAT HAS VAST REPERCUSSIONS.

Commentator Celeste Headlee talks about her grandfather, composer William Grant Still, and his groundbreaking music.

NPR's Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine, reports on the American daffodils that have been muscling in on the garden that once belonged to English poet William Wordsworth.

A Tennessee Williams celebration took place in New Orleans last weekend. It included a "Stelloff" contest. Scott speaks with the winner.

Candidates for the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners answered questions about why they should be elected (or reelected).

In anticipation of the next presidential elections in Zimbabwe, the government of President Robert Mugabe is cracking down on civil rights activists. Activists Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams have been arrested nearly 50 times each. They talk with host Michel Martin about why they keep pushing for reform.

For decades, the genre has had a stealth mission: promoting public health. It started with Doug E. Fresh's "Stroke Ain't No Joke."

Writer and Naturalist-in Residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS. She was described by "Newsweek" as "one of the West's most striking new writers." Born a Utah Mormon, Williams has written several books about the environment and the West, such as "Coyote's Canyon" and "Earthly Messengers." Her book, "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," concerned her mother's unsuccessful battle with cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge by the rising Great Salt Lake waters. It also asserts that the seven cancer deaths in her family probably resulted from atomic testing in Nevada in the fifties and sixties. (Published by Random House.) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 10

This past week, composer John Williams joined National Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to open a multi-concert series "Soundtracks: Music and Film." NPR's Liane Hansen visited with the two musicians.

Movie music buff Andy Trudeau continues his series on Oscar-nominated film scores. In this edition: Munich, composed by John Williams, and Brokeback Mountain, composed by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver the invocation at President Obama's inauguration, reportedly becoming the first woman, and someone other than clergy, to say the prayer that precedes the ceremonial oath of office. The ceremony will take place on Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

David Williams, 54, spent eight days on a ventilator after he got COVID-19. Weeks after being discharged from the hospital, he still needs an oxygen tube and a walker.

Omaha just elected its first Black mayor, giving this year's Juneteenth celebrations new energy. The city wants to mark the occasion by being a model for unity during a time of divisiveness.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Daryle Williams, an associate history professor at the University of Maryland, about the Enslaved.org initiative aimed at documenting the lives of enslaved people.

The Bush administration is facing key decisions on troop levels in Iraq. Juan Williams says President Bush is hesitant to increase U.S. troop strength to overwhelm the insurgency, due to polling that shows falling support for the war.

Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died early Saturday at age 53. NPR's Juan Williams, who had appeared with Snow as a commentator on Fox News Channel, talks about his friend and former colleague.