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A New Jersey state supreme court justice will not face impeachment proceedings. Justice Peter Verniero is accused of misleading the public about the use of racial profiling by state police, but a top lawmaker has said he will block any attempt at impeachment. Eugene Sonn reports from member station WHYY in Philadelphia.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on state and federal reaction to a plan to provide California with power during the summer months. The proposal was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) earlier this week. But California Gov. Gray Davis, and President Bush, are far from happy.

The U.S. says a tape recording of the cockpit conversation in an American surveillance plane over Peru proves the crew tried to stop the shoot down of a missionary plane by the Peruvian Air Force. An American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter were killed when a Peruvian fighter mistook their plane for a drug smuggling aircraft. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Pentagon Correspondent Tom Gjelten.

No one would think to charge Starbucks Coffee with selling drugs for the caffeine it distributes every day. But David Courtwright, author of Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, says psychoactives found in alcohol, coffee and tobacco are just as much drugs as psychoactives found in opiates, marijuana and cocaine. Robert Siegel talks to David Courtwright about the book. (9:30) Forces of Habit is published by Harvard University Press, March 2001.

NPR's Mara Liasson examines President Bush's first 100 days in office by comparing them to his predecessor's first 100 days. He's generally receiving good marks from presidential scholars and political analysts, but the public still has some reservations.

NPR's Rick Karr reports on the new encryption system for online music and the group of Princeton professors who cracked the code and now have the record industry up in arms.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Tropical Brainstorm the final album by the late British singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.

President Bush campaigned last year on a promise to restore the power and morale of the United States armed forces. But this year he introduced his first budget with scarcely any increase in spending for the military. The president said he wanted to conduct a strategic review of all U.S. defense needs. That review is nearly complete now, and it appears some weapons systems long sought or supported by the Pentagon are on the chopping block. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon.

Linda Wertheimer is joined by David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Standard and E.J. Dionne, a columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, to talk about the first 100 days of George W. Bush's presidency. They discuss Bush's leadership and management style, his efforts to rally support behind his $1.6 trillion tax cut and his approach to foreign policy.

Mitch Teich, from member station KNAU, reports on the continuing battle in Flagstaff, Arizona's, battle over adding fluoride to the water. Dentists and doctors are singing the praises of fluoride's ability to protect teeth from cavities, but some residents are holding onto McCarthy-era fears of fluoride as a tool of the Communists.