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NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr provides some historical perspective on the President's first 100 days.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports on a re-creation of the original game of baseball. The Genesee Country Village and Museum, near Rochester, New York, spent about $200,000 to build an authentic wooden baseball stadium.

Two witnesses of America's last public execution describe what they saw. These two men were among the 20,000 people who watched the hanging of convicted rapist Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1936. Tomorrow, Renee Montagne will explore why Bethea's hanging became America's last public execution to date.

NPR's Alex Van Oss reports Lawrence Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. His decisions to change the Smithsonian's current system have drawn sharp criticism from current staff as well as outsiders.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on space tourist Dennis Tito who has achieved his dream of going to space. NASA complained it would be a distraction, but Russian space officials allowed him to buy a seat on their ship.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the progress of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which will come before a House committee this week.

U.S. relations with China and Taiwan have been defined by three official communiquis, and the Taiwan Relations Act. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports that many officials now believe that these agreements have outlived their usefulness. But the task of drafting a new policy will be difficult as the relationship between China and the U.S. is has been strained by a number of incidents.

Seen as more convenient than voting in person and more efficient than voting by mail, ballot drop boxes were used more than ever in 2020. Now, drop boxes are facing backlash in some Republican states.

The European Court of Human Rights says Russia's government is responsible for the 2006 killing in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent turned exiled dissident.

After 9/11, security measures on the streets of Washington, D.C., ramped up. Now dialed down, the way Americans access their government changed — and new threats show this security may not be enough.