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President Biden has arrived in Rome for the G20 summit. Ahead of the summit, Biden meets with several world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis.

In early 19th-century America, dime museums were popular attractions. So named because admission cost $.10, these "museums" were eccentric collections of the bizarre: stuffed two-headed calves, petrified mummies, and dragon fossils. Some of it might have been real. Now two showmen in the old time tradition have opened the American Dime Museum in Baltimore. Harriet Baskas paid them a visit.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today takes up the question of how much a jury should consider mental capacity of a defendant when deciding capital punishment cases. (8:32) Check out NPR News coverage of the Supreme Court.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Indonesia that female vice president Megowati Sukarnoputri may have a second shot at the presidency of this mostly male-run country.

In the second of four Radio Expedition reports, NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the search in Central Africa for an elusive member of the ape family. It may be a gorilla, a very large chimpanzee, or perhaps another apelike creature that's unfamiliar to scientists. The mysterious creature is referred to as "the Bili Ape," after the area in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the search is taking place.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Macedonia. Fighting between a small band of ethnic Albanian rebels and the Macedonian military continues.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Secretary of Education Roderick Paige. The former Houston superintendent of schools says that although in the past Republicans have wanted to abolish the Department of Education, President Bush is dedicated to public schools.

Doug MacPherson of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on the continuing problem of acid rain. Despite improvements in emissions standards over the past decade, environmental experts say that even more stringent standards are needed to speed-up the recovery of damaged ecosystems.

Host Bob Edwards talks with reporter Caroline Gluck about changes South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has ordered in his cabinet.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Michael Kaiser, the newly appointed president of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of conversations on Morning Edition about leading a divided group. Kaiser is known for his track record of bringing troubled arts organizations back from the brink of collapse. He says the most important facet of leadership is a vision for the future.