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NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that today the Federal Communications Commission is issuing new rules intended to make local phone service more competitive. The unanimous F-C-C vote completes an overhaul that opens the local marketplace to long distance and cable T-V companies as well as other competitors. About a dozen states are working to get competitors into their local phone businesses to go head to head with the regional Bell companies. The so-called Baby Bells have had a lock on the market until now.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that today marks the anniversary of an event that changed the future of Bosnia. One year ago, a mortar shell exploded in a crowded marketplace. 37 civilians died. The massacre was the catalyst that convinced NATO to be more aggressive. The resulting NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb military positions continued until all three warring factions in the former Yugoslavia agreed to establish a peace process.

Wednesday, a car plowed into a pedestrian marketplace in Santa Monica, Calif., killing nine people and injuring more than 45. The driver, an 86-year-old man, told police he may have hit the accelerator when he meant to brake. The incident raises the profile of an issue that is already before legislators in several states: the issue of tests for elderly drivers. Melissa Block talks with Bella Dinh-Zarr, national director of traffic safety policy for the American Automobile Association.

Pulitzer Prize-winning economist Daniel Yergin will talk about the changing economy of oil in light of the possibility of war with Iraq. Yergin's 1991 book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, is highly acclaimed. He is president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. His new book, co-authored with Dr. Joseph A. Stanislaw, is The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World. The Prize was adapted into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series. Audio not available due to rights issues.

The Republican secretary of state for the state of Washington, which votes almost entirely by mail, is pushing back President Trump's claims that the vote-by-mail process will result in voter fraud.

The leaders of six journalism schools discuss the ongoing media bloodbath, the cost of a journalism degree, and how to prepare journalists for the future.

The warning from the Food and Drug Administration is the latest attempt by regulators to crack down on illegal disposable vapes that have poured into U.S. stores in recent years.

Jennifer is a reporter for Michigan Radio's State of Opportunity project, which looks at kids from low-income families and what it takes to get them ahead. She previously covered arts and culture for the station, and was one of the lead reporters on the award-winning education series Rebuilding Detroit Schools. Prior to working at Michigan Radio, Jennifer lived in New York where she was a producer at WFUV, an NPR station in the Bronx.

A man attacked a preschool in southern China — killing a teacher, two parents and three children. Police say the attacker is in custody, but they haven't released a motive yet for the killings.

The U.S, ranked No. 1 and the reigning World Cup champions, played a familiar foe: Sweden. And unfortunately for the U.S., it was a familiar result. Sweden beat them 3-0.