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The incident comes months after Chappelle faced controversy over his 2021 Netflix special The Closer, in which he makes jokes about transgender women.

The Internet age has created a new transparency in campaign financing. Years ago, reporters covering the money trail had to dig up their information from files deep inside the Federal Election Commission. Now the information is available within seconds on various Web sites. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

Tulane University medical student Andy Martin is hard at work searching for a cure for an extremely rare, highly fatal type of cancer called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. For Martin, the quest is personal: he himself has been diagnosed with the illness. Martin speaks with NPR's Robert Siegel.

An analysis by the British medical journal The Lancet of unpublished drug company studies done on children and teens who take antidepressants concludes that only one drug, fluoxetine (known also by the brand name Prozac), was not associated with negative outcomes for children with depression. Last year, Britain's Committee on Safety of Medicines prohibited the treatment of childhood depression with any antidepressant except fluoxetine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not taken this action, though it has approved only fluoxetine for children. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on whether the new analysis sheds more light on the controversy about these medications.

President Bush says the just-released President's Daily Brief document from August 6, 2001, lacked enough information to prevent an attack on the United States. Bush also said U.S. troops in Iraq will have as many reinforcements as they need. Bush spoke with reporters Sunday morning after meeting with troops at Fort Hood, Texas. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen.

Massive demonstrations in Washington in support of abortion rights bring high-profile speakers and vocal opposition. Organizers called the event the "March for Women's Lives." While hundreds of thousands of marchers rallied to the capital, anti-abortion activists turned out in force, as well. Hear NPR's Libby Lewis, NPR's Cheryl Corley and former Texas governor Ann Richards.

Nevada's booming population means the state's political makeup changes significantly from one presidential election to the next. Though President Bush carried the state in 2000, this year analysts say Nevada is almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. NPR's Robert Siegel explores the issues that may decide the presidential election there.

The third installment of Joe Richman and Sue Johnson's series "Mandela: An Audio History" covers the years that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress leadership spent imprisoned on Robben Island. Leadership in the anti-apartheid fight came from an unlikely place: Schoolchildren whose activism was fueled by a new rule that all education should be in Afrikaans.

Part 4 of Joe Richman and Sue Johnson's series "Mandela: An Audio History." This episode covers the decade leading up to the dramatic release of Nelson Mandela after more than 25 years in prison.

Soprano Deborah Voigt has just released Obsessions, her first solo recording of Strauss and Wagner arias. The release coincided with her highly publicized firing from a Covent Garden production because of her weight.