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Grace Spruch has a thousand stories about the squirrels she's been inviting into her fifth floor Greenwich Village apartment. She shares some of those stories -- and squirrel time -- with NPR's Margot Adler. (6:00) Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, by Grace Marmor Spruch, is published by Johnson Books. ISBN # 1555662579.

The bell at First Congregational Church in Woodbury, Connecticut rings every hour. It's been doing that for 150 years. Now, the town council is considering putting a stop to the bell's ring between 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. Residents are complaining the bell is keeping them awake. Noah Adams talks with Mark Heillishorn, pastor of First Congregational.

NPR's David Welna reports from Orange, Texas, where a dozen residents took part in a role-playing exercise as a congressional committee trying to divvy up the federal budget. The group concluded that the $1.6 trillion tax cut proposed by President George Bush wasn't a prudent idea until the national debt is paid off.

It's been 6 months since a tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing a quarter of a million people in a dozen countries. As NPR's Margot Adler reports, the billions of dollars in aid that have poured into those countries is only beginning to make a dent.

Rock will host the 2005 Academy Awards, airing Sunday. The comedian spent time on the cast of Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, and his comedy TV specials include last year's Chris Rock: Never Scared and Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker. This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 6, 1997.

Some 6,000 pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act provide new details about the mistreatment of detainees by U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Jackie Northam.

Scientists at Stanford University say 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is no longer the average body temperature.

The television show "Schitt's Creek" begins its sixth and final season tonight on POP TV.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson and national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about this week's developments on the campaign trail. President Clinton travelled to California and Colorado to campaign and raise funds. Republican Bob Dole traveled to Pennsylvania where he talked about special tax breaks and other measures to help small businesses. (6:00) (IN S

The U-S is stepping up the evacuation of foreign nationals from Liberia. The Pentagon said more helicopters would be moved in to continue the evacuation from Freetown. More than 5 hundred foreign nationals have been evacuted sincce Tuesday. Ninety-one of those are Americns. It's said to be the worst fighting in 6 years in Liberia. Fighting broke out last weekend. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.