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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.

A mother seeks advice on how to get her ex-husband to keep their sons on his plan because it would be less costly than hers.

According to a new study, Asian-American hosts earn about 20 percent less than their white counterparts on AirBnB.

For generations, people have looked for small, informal signs that a recession is coming or already here. This phenomenon recently exploded on social media, often in joke form.

The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months.

The verdict is the first to be handed down against the top Khmer Rouge leadership. As many as 2 million people died in the regime's "killing fields." The two men will serve life in prison.

Shawn Stone joins us to talk about what he's seen lately and what cultural events are coming up this week in our region.Seen: Finding…