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The Smithsonian Institution has asked volunteers to transcribe handwritten material from its vast collection. We meet a couple of the transcribers and hear what they've been working on.

The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Times reporter Jim Risen to provide critical eyewitness testimony it says it can't get any other way in the leak case involving former CIA operative Jeffrey Sterling. Risen says he'll ask a judge to quash the subpoena, setting up a First Amendment fight and a game of chicken with high stakes.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that there may have been as many as 12 corporate executives travelling with Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown when his plane went down over Croatia today. The executives were exploring business opportunities in Bosnia and Croatia, which are about to begin a massive rebuilding campaign.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the closing of Sumner lementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The Sumner school was the focal point of he 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that became the landmark decision eading to national integration.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that NATO helicopters have begun to bring down from the mountain the victims of yesterday's air crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. The plan was carrying U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and business executives. The Clinton Administration is in mourning and messages of sympathy are flowing in from all over the world.

Secretary Ron Brown was just one of dozens of passengers aboard the United States Air Force plane that crashed this morning near the coast of Croatia. There were as many 30 others aboard. The other passengers aboard are believed to be business executives who were on a trade mission.

The confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson are set for March 21. Activists who pushed for a Black woman are excited and ready for a fight.

Although the Supreme Court ruled on her case in June, the question of who gets custody over the young girl — her biological father or the couple who adopted her — remains unsettled.

Near Ferguson, Mo., young people are taking the lead in protesting police brutality. Many say they had never considered activism before, but saw Michael Brown's shooting death as a call to action.