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From member station WNYC, Andrea Bernstein reports that New York City will pay millions to citizens who were strip-searched by police. The settlement is one of the largest ever for civil rights offenses.

Naval veterans sailing a 1942 ship known as a Landing Ship Tank, or L-S-T, from Greece to Mobile, Alabama, are near their destination. The ship will be used for a museum in Alabama. Its crew is made up of 32 Navy veterans who had served on this type of vessel. Noah talks with Bob Jornlin, Captain of the U.S.S. LST-325 Memorial, for an update on the story. (4:30) A log of the ship's crew can be found at: http://www.palosverdes.com/lst887/lst325.html; And http://www.uslst.org is the website of the U.S. LST Association.

Commentator David Frum says the withdrawal of Linda Chavez as nominee for Secretary of Labor is a sign of trouble ahead. He says the criticism of Chavez for helping an illegal immigrant smells of partisan politics at its worst.

As the controversy over the use of Depleted Uranium weapons heats up in Europe, NPR's David Kestenbaum takes a long hard look at what the science says - and doesn't say - about the possible health risks.

Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher was thought to have died, when his plane was shot down over Iraq in the first night of the Persian Gulf War, in January of 1991. Bob Burns, Pentagon Correspondent for the Associated Press, tells Noah Adams that Speicher's status has now been changed, from killed to missing in action.

Robert talks with Tania Branigan -- a reporter for the British daily newspaper The Guardian -- about the case of the naked defendant Vincent Bethell. Bethell had been held in jail for more than five months on charges of creating a public nuisance. Mr. Bethell refused to wear clothing to court. Remarkably, the judge allowed the trial to proceed.

Every workplace in China has a propaganda unit. The central government now calls them "publicity" departments. NPR's Rob Gifford reports that Chinese President Jiang Zemin addressed provincial chiefs of these propaganda units last night. The speech seemed remarkably out of step with today's China, a country in which people generally are far more interested in making money than in politics. The President said Marxism still is his guiding philosophy and that he would work to educate the Chinese people about Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong. Yet, couched in the language of Communist ideology was an acknowledgement that what both China and the Communist Party need is economic development.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on Bush's newest nominee for Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao .

The Internet company that bought the naming rights to the Baltimore Ravens stadium is struggling to survive, and the team is searching for a new name. Some fans are saying it'll be a good change. Mark Hyman reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Sue Bostrom of Cisco Systems about the firm's annual survey on Internet use. The study concludes the Internet is being used mostly by older businesses, not the newer ones.