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The Mississippi River is expected to crest today in the small Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien. But the floods have already placed a tremendous financial burden on homeowners and businesses. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

A judge in Atlanta ruled yesterday that a book patterned after Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone With the Wind is not a parody, and therefore not constitutionally protected. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on today's rally by the National Organization for Women. Called Emergency Action for Women's Lives, the rally is targeting Senators who have the power to appoint Supreme Court Justices, and marks the beginning of a four-year campaign.

President Bush visited New Jersey this week to press for his tax cut proposal and to court one Democratic Senator in particular. From member station WNYC in New York, Andrea Bernstein reports.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the beginnings of union organization among illegal workers, a previously non-organized part of the workforce. Aubrey focuses on hundreds of workers at a poultry plant in Selbyville, Delaware, that are beginning to speak up.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Brussels on the ongoing trial of war crime atrocities in Rwanda. This is the first time war crimes have been tried outside of an international tribunal.

Despite the negative publicity of the foot and mouth epidemic in England, British officials are celebrating higher than expected tourism over the past spring break. But as NPR's Julie McCarthy reports, tourism in rural communities is still hurting.

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 Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on the Russian president's efforts to tighten Moscow's reins on regional governments. A year after Vladimir Putin's election, he has failed to follow through on his pledge to curb the power of Russia's governors.