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NPR's Brian Naylor reports on Attorney General John Ashcroft's first news conference since taking office. Ashcroft, whose treatment of a black judge was an issue in his confirmation, highlighted his plans for civil rights. Ashcroft said enforcing laws against discrimination is one of his three priorities. He did not confirm or deny news reports that Atlanta lawyer Larry Thompson and Washington attorney Theodore Olson are in line for top jobs at the Justice Department.

President Bush is focusing on national security this week in a series of visits to military bases. Today he inspected troops at an Army base in Georgia. (The president told soldiers at Fort Stewart that he would raise their pay and improve their housing as a way of raising morale and encouraging recruitment in the armed forces.) NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea was there.

Of the two versions of the genome map, one is by for-profit Celera Genomics, the other by a publicly funded group led by the National Institutes of Health. They've chosen the world's two foremost science journals to publish their work, and therein lies controversy. Science magazine gets Celera's map. The journal normally allows unfettered access by researchers to the data behind its articles. But not this time. And that has some researchers worried that business is usurping openness in science. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports

Joi is an electronic band from London with a Bengali sound -- tabla drums, flutes, and other ornamentation woven in with the dance beats. Its latest album is We Are Three.

President Bush got his full Cabinet faster confirmed than most presidents do. But like his predecessors, he is finding the filling of other high appointive offices is far more troublesome and time consuming. NPR's Pam Fessler reports that the people who do most of the heavy-lifting in policy-making have yet to be named.

NPR's Rick Karr reports a federal court in San Francisco has ruled against Napster and ordered the online music service to stop trading in copyrighted material. The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an earlier lower court ruling indicating that Napster violated copyright laws.

Engineers have landed a spacecraft on an asteroid -- the first time that's been done. he asteroid is Eros, 196 million miles away and a remnant of the early days of the solar system. The craft is called NEAR, and it was designed to take pictures and readings of the asteroid's surface. But now its primary job is done. NPR's David Kestenbaum joined the engineers as they tried to put the craft down as softly as possible on the spinning chunk of rock.

Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC in Los Angeles reports that a major California utility lost its bid to have a federal judge to lift caps on the rates it charges its customers. Southern California Edison will not drop its effort, but will pursue its case through the courts.

Survivors and families who lost loved ones in the June 2015 attack said the FBI's negligence allowed Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used in the attack.

Noah talks with American University Law Professor Peter Jaszi, who specializes in copyright, contract, and intellectual property law as it pertains to the Internet, about the Napster ruling.