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At the same time Montana hospitals are seeing record numbers of Covid patients, county health officers are resigning or being forced out by elected officials who don't follow public health guidance.

As inspectors continue looking for weapons in Iraq, the U.N. and the United States begin to examine the country's official response to charges it has ongoing weapons programs. Iraq says it has no weapons of mass destruction. The Bush Administration says Iraq is lying. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and Vicky O'Hara.

Cardinal Law resigns as Archbishop of Boston as controversy persists over his handling of sex-abuse allegations against the Roman Catholic clergy. The move comes after 58 priests called for Law to step down. The Archdiocese's financial problems remain. Hear from NPR's Bob Edwards, John Allen of The National Catholic Reporter and NPR's Duncan Moon.

Adding to a tense standoff centered on its nuclear ambitions, North Korea tells the United Nations it wants surveillance cameras removed from a nuclear plant it intends to reopen. China may be asked to play a diplomatic role in the evolving crisis. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

President Bush signs executive orders to help religious groups get federal money for charitable activities. The move advances the president's so-called "faith-based initiatives" while bypassing Congress. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

North Korean officials say they will reopen a nuclear power plant closed under a 1994 agreement with Washington. The move raises new concerns about North Korea's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Hear NPR's Rob Gifford and Johns Hopkins professor Donald Oberdorfer.

A salmonella outbreak has affected more than 30 states. Federal health officials link it to onions grown in Chihuahua, Mexico, and distributed by ProSource Inc.

President Bush criticizes remarks by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) that seemed to endorse the nation's segregated past. Lott praised retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president in 1948. Bush termed the comments "offensive" and "wrong." Hear from NPR's David Welna and David Hampton of the Jackson, Miss. Clarion-Ledger.

A South Korean envoy meets with Chinese officials to gain support in resolving North Korea's nuclear issue. Experts say they're baffled about what the North hopes to gain through its nuclear brinkmanship. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

A lawyer for two Illinois National Guard pilots who accidentally bombed Canadian forces in Afghanistan last spring says his clients were on drugs. He says military officials pushed the men to take amphetamines. Hear more from NPR's Lynn Neary and Christian Science Monitor correspondent Brad Knickerbocker, a former Navy pilot.