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Four leading Internet service providers announce they are filing civil lawsuits against hundreds of people, accusing them of sending unsolicited e-mails, known as "spam." The suits cite the CAN-SPAM Act passed last year. The companies filing the suits are EarthLink, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Commentator Ralph Schoenstein says the wave of computerized toys aimed at children this summer will give them acute digital delirium. Active children, says Schoenstein, will be replaced by interactive ones. Toys will feature computerized voices. And kids three-years and older will be able to send and receive e-mail thanks to hand-held comunications devices marketed to them.

Robert and Noah read listeners' comments. To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20001. The e-mail address for contacting All Things Considered is ATC at NPR dot ORG. 18. PAINTING THE HOUSE -- Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.

America Online spent much of yesterday offline, with problems that began early in the morning and lasted until late last night. America Online officials explained that the outage was caused by a faulty installation of internal system software. Thousands of small businesses and others were left without access to e-mail and other network services and many learned that that they are more dependent on computer networks than they realized. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Linda reads letters from listeners across the country. This week people weigh in on our stories about the Peruvian hostage ordeal, recognizing black American English in Oakland, California, the V-Chip, and alternative Christmas traditions and music. (3:30) Listeners can send letters to: 635 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Or by E-mail to: atc@npr.org.

If Dominion prevails in its massive defamation suit against Fox News, a big challenge for the voting tech company will be to demonstrate that it deserves more than $1 billion in damages.

Don Gonyea talks with Mark Wolfe of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association about how inflation is affecting low income Americans.

The Merit Systems Protection Board, the quasi-judicial agency that hears appeals in federal employee labor disputes, has ordered a stay in the firing of six probationary employees.

President Biden is marking the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by awarding medals to a dozen people who he said helped protect democracy that day.

The budget bills outline $33 billion of state government spending over the next two years, with Republicans lauding it as a historic investment in Kentucky education and Democrats criticizing it as falling too short.