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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to resign. Michael Powell achieved name recognition with the general public due to the huge fines levied by the FCC against the owners of radio and TV stations in the name of decency.

Randy Cohen, New York Times Sunday Magazine ethicist, has some advice for a soccer mom on how to deal with a ringer on her son's team. The team had a losing record, so the coach brought in a bigger, older kid to play under an assumed name.

Johnny Carson died Sunday at the age of 79. Carson was best known as the host of the Tonight Show, where he brought the popular late-night talk show to new heights over a 30-year career.

The Senate votes 89-2 to approve a sweeping intelligence reform bill, one day after approval in the House. The bill now goes to President Bush for his signature. The difficulty of the task was apparent from the beginning, when the Sept. 11 commission made broad recommendations involving major changes to the status quo. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

This has been a deadly winter for skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers who have ventured out-of-bounds in Utah's snow-covered Wasatch Range. Writer and radio producer Scott Carrier travels to Alta, a Mecca for "powder hounds," to get the views of skiers who are sticking to safer, sanctioned slopes.

A member of the National Guard stationed in Iraq has been chronicling the birds and other forms of wildlife he has observed there for almost a year. He talks about his latest sightings. We last spoke with Jon in October. He's getting ready to leave Iraq soon, and so it seemed the perfect excuse to ask him about his latest sightings.

A funeral mass is held for the first New York firefighter to die in combat in Iraq. Sgt. Christian Engeldrum was among the rescuers who responded to the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 and served in New York's National Guard. Richard Hake of member station WNYC reports.

For some of the thousands living in the United States, casting a vote in Iraq's Jan. 30 elections means driving thousands of miles. Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and Nashville, Tenn., are the only polling sites.

President Bush selects federal appeals court Judge Michael Chertoff to be director of the Department of Homeland Security. Bush noted that the Senate has confirmed Chertnoff three times in the past for other posts. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

A new report from the National Research Council says it is safe to ingest perchlorate -- a chemical linked to decreased thyroid function and found in drinking water in more than 35 states -- at doses 20 times greater than the "reference dose" currently proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Hear NPR's Jon Hamilton.