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Adrian Florido speaks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about Chile's new president, Gabriel Boric, who will take power on Friday.

The report doesn't materially change the controversy or reveal new facts. It is a reminder of a bad decision that has been a weight on Clinton's campaign since before she announced she was running.

Danny speaks with NPR's Nancy Cohen, who was on board one of the Cuban-American ships in a flotilla that headed out to Cuba today to participate in a ceremony honoring the four civilian pilots who were killed last Saturday when Cuban MIGs shot them out of the sky. The flotilla was unable to reach its destination -- the spot where the planes were downed -- because of poor weather.

Robert talks to Scotsman Pete Haywood, in Washington, D.C. to attend the the international folk conference. Haywood tried to bring the late Scottish poet Robert Burns with him, but the airline wouldn't allow the paper mache figure on board witout paying a giant fare. So Burns is stuck across the Atlantic. We also hear the music of Ed Miller, playing the lyrics of Robbie Burns.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to a third four-year term. The President also announced yesterday that he will nominate Budget Director Alice Rivlin and Washington University Economist Lawrence Meyer to vacant seats on the Federal Reserve Board.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Bioethicist Arthur Caplan about the suspension of all federally funded clinical trials involving humans at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa. The government said researchers at the medical college and a university oversight board, repeatedly violated federal regulations and endangered patients in a cancer study. Arthur Caplan is Director of the Center of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Canadian Navy has boarded an American-owned ship that was contracted to carry Canadian military equipment back from a Kosovo peacekeeping mission. The ship has been circling in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, refusing to return the tanks, weapons, and other cargo until a financial dispute is worked out with a middleman. Linda talks to Natalie Clancy, a national reporter for CBC Television, in Halifax, Canada, about the situation.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that Russia today asked Britain and Norway for help in rescuing the crew of the submarine Kursk, which has been stranded for days at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Britain has airlifted a mini-sub to Norway, to be sent on to the crash site. The request for foreign help followed repeated, unsuccessful attempts by the Russians to dock a diving bell to the sub, to evacuate the more than 100 men on board.

Colorado Public Radio's Andrea Dukakis reports on a controversy over the national motto "In God We Trust." The state school board passed a non-binding resolution that suggested public schools post the motto, but some schools have been hesitant to do so. Critics say the motto excludes students of different faiths, and some warn of possible legal battles.

Noah talks with with Chris Nuttall, the BBC correspondent in Turkey. Nuttall discusses the end of four-day hostage ordeal in which gunmen seized a Black Sea ferry with more than 200 people on board and threatened to blow up the boat unless Russian troops halted their attacks on Chechen rebels in southern Russia. The pro-Chechen gunmen surrendered to Turkish authorities near Istanbul after throwing their weapons into the sea.