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NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art has mounted an ad campaign on billboards around the city. The billboards are, in effect, labels for the settings in which they're located. Imagine the city as if it were a painting, and you'll get the idea. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Linda Wertheimer about today's testimony in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to blow up the U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998.

Commentator Dinesh D'Souza suggests growing inequality is a reflection of something that is right with the economy, rather than something wrong.

Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says it's the investors themselves, not the dot-com innovators, who are to blame for the big losses they sustained when Internet companies flopped.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

The Colombian soap opera Betty La Fea, or Betty the Ugly,, has become a nightly hit all over Latin America. It features a heroine with buck teeth, dirty hair and a very bad wardrobe. Reporter Steven Dudley visits the show's set in Bogota to find out why Betty is popular.

NPR's Susan Stone profiles Danielson Famile, an unusual alternative rock band who are sweethearts of the indie music scene, but as they sing of Christ in their lyrics, they raise the hackles of many within the Christian music industry.

House Democrats are meeting near Pittsburgh today, reviewing the 2000 presidential election and trying to come up with a strategy for dealing with President Bush's legislative proposals. The president himself stopped by today to try to convince them to support his agenda. NPR's Eric Westervelt tells Lisa who is winning over whom.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere of Puccini's Tosca . Despite a mediocre reception and a poor review of the first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Toscaendures as one of the most revered operas in history. Lisa discovers why it's also one of the most disaster-prone.