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Amazon has announced plans to launch thousands of new satellites into orbit over the next five years. Some experts fear that it will overwhelm the world's ability to manage congestion in space.

This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's actions in his country amount to genocide.

The U.S. and Europe are imposing new sanctions against Russia after allegations of atrocities in Ukraine. Among the targets are financial institutions and some of Russia's elite.

Roger Wallace is living proof that much of the very best country music now comes from Texas. But this young singer/songwriter's musical influence reaches back to the traditions of country and bluegrass that prevail in his hometown of Knoxville, Tenn. (11:00) Visit Texas Round-Up Records.

In the second installment of Morning Edition's series on emerging Southern artists, NPR's Debbie Elliott profiles Louisiana writer Louis Edwards. Edwards' second novel, N, follows journalist Aimee Dubois she tries to solve the killing of a black high school student. The noir-style mystery takes place in New Orleans' historic French Quarter and in the black neighborhood across town. (8:47-9:36) {Edwards, Louis, N, Plume Books, New York: 1997. ISBN: 0-525-94182-7}

A new book pays tribute to Antonio Prohias, the Cuban-born creator of the "Spy vs. Spy" comic strip still seen in MAD magazine 40 years later.

NPR's Howard Berkes talks with Flagstaff author Brad Dimock about Glen and Bessie Hyde. The newlywed couple disappeared on a Colorado River trip through the Grand Canyon in the late 1920's. Some people say Bessie killed Glen, and others claim to have met her decades later on the river. Dimock and his new bride built a boat similar to the Hyde's and took the same trip down the Colorado.

A sea creature known as a brittlestar has a natural fibre optic system far in advance of anything technology has yet devised.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the people who are putting careers and parenthood on hold in order to care for their aging parents. These college students and "30-somethings" are part of a generation born later in their parents' lives - and that means eldercare is beginning much earlier for them.

NPR's David Molpus profiles the new band Mofro as part of our series on emerging Southern Artists. The band's music has been described as "juke joint," but along with the funky beat there's an environmental message about Florida's disappearing swamplands. The band's co-founder, John J.J. Grey, says his music is a good way to groove and get a point across.