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An American banker who ran one of Russia's largest TV networks is fired by the state-owned company that owns the network. Some media analysts suggest Boris Jordan was dismissed for NTV's aggressive reporting, particularly during the Chechen rebel raid in October. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Poet, playwright and performance artist Sarah Jones tours with a one-woman show called Waking the American Dream. Her many characters reflect astonishing diversity and encourage an effort to know -- not fear -- our neighbors. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

President Bush is set to announce a national plan to vaccinate Americans against smallpox. The plan calls for vaccinating medical and emergency workers early next year, followed by offering the vaccine to the general public in 2004. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Several hundred Japanese Americans who grew up in World War II internment camps gather at a Los Angeles hotel for a reunion. The survivors say they want to tell their stories before their generation dies out. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

Anita Kendrick is an American who has known since childhood that she wanted to live abroad. She lives now in Jakarta, Indonesia, and says the richness of her life there outweighs the risk of terrorist violence, though friends and family have asked her to leave.

She was born in Illinois. But when Abigail Washburn picks up a banjo and sings, the lyrics are often in Chinese. An immersion in Chinese culture inspired her to reconnect with American musical roots.

Author Michael Farquhar has a new book of mini biographies called A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans. These are people whom, for some reason, official history has overlooked — among others, a swashbuckling female pirate and a "DO-take-prisoners" World War II Marine.

An American doctor journals her daily life as a volunteer in al-Shifa hospital, which was once Gaza's largest medical facility.

It's illegal for immigration officials to detain U.S. citizens. But an NPR analysis of public records found that in an eight-year period, some 1,500 people who were held turned out to be Americans.

A grand jury has accused Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates with seditious conpsiracy tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the Captiol.