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NPR's Peter Kenyon profiles Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, the Democratic counterpart to John McCain on the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill. Like McCain, Feingold has a knack of irritating his own party. But he could turn out to be the Democrats' best hope of attracting independent voters to their side of the aisle.

According to their findings, Vikings sailed to Newfoundland about 1,000 years ago.

The Navy is defending its practice of inviting civilian visitors on warships to sit in control positions during exercises. Officials do admit that civilians may have been a distraction aboard the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville during the sub's fatal surfacing maneuver last Friday. The sub collided with a Japanese fishing trawler, sinking the ship. Nine people are still missing and presumed drowned in the incident off the coast of Hawaii. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Art Silverman confesses that he knows the man who brought on the downfall of pay telephones.

Susanna Capelouto of Georgia Public Radio reports that the deaths of teen-agers on Georgia highways, particularly around Atlanta, has state lawmakers concerned.

Wisconsin has established a 50-mile-per-hour nighttime speed limit for snowmobiles. Noah Adams talks with Karl Brooks, Snowmobile and ATV Administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Law Enforcement in Madison, Wis., about the state's reasons.

Part of President George W. Bush's tax plan calls for the elimination of the estate tax. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Janet Hook of the LA Times who says that the repeal of the estate tax has moved to the bottom of the tax cut agenda.

NPR's Rob Gifford talks to host Lisa Simeone about a new tax fraud scam in China that could be the worst corruption scandal since Communists took over the country in 1949.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Raleigh, North Carolina, on a series of new lawsuits which claim that large-scale hog farms are damaging the environment. Pork producers deny the charges.

It marks an abrupt end to a sense of normalcy that had settled over Moscow. On Thursday, Russia reported 1,159 deaths in the previous 24 hours. The Kremlin blames Russians' reluctance to vaccinate.