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A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Napster has offered one-billion dollars to settle a lawsuit with the recording industry. Record labels contend the online music service violates copyrights by helping its users copy music from each other for free. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Chris Arnold about Napster's settlement offer.

At his first official White House press conference, President Bush continued to take the high road on the subject of last minute pardons by former President Clinton. We hear an excerpt. And NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the effort made today by New York Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to distance herself from the latest controversies surrounding the granting of last-minute pardons by her husband.

One of the two people that Hugh Rodham advocated pardons for was convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali. Noah talks with Stephen Braun of the Los Angeles Times.

Teenagers are the hottest consumer demographic in America. Media analyst Douglas Rushkoff examines the multi-billion dollar marketing industry aimed at teenagers in the new Frontline documentary The Merchants of Cool. (Tuesday, Feb. 27th at 10 PM). Rushkoff is also the author of Coercion: Why We Listen to What They Say (Riverhead books) about how our everyday decisions are influenced by marketers, politicians, religious leaders, and other forces.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

Some people spy for money, some for ideology, and others just for adventure. But no one is sure why former FBI counter-intelligence specialist Robert Hanssen may have volunteered to betray U.S. intelligence secrets to the Russians. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on his possible motivations.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Sue Hecht, a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Hecht saw her mother abused in a care home for the elderly, and she has introduced legislation that would permit video cameras to be placed in nursing homes.

Former President Bill Clinton has asked his brother-in-law to return money he received in connection with pardons Mr. Clinton granted to two convicted felons at the end of his term. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Hugh was given about 200-thousand-dollars for successfully lobbying for the pardons. Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson about it.