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President Biden announced a reset of his plan to tackle the pandemic, with tougher new vaccine rules for federal workers and contractors and more testing.

NPR host Steve Inskeep visits Torkham, a major border crossing wedged between Pakistan and Afghanistan, to explore who is and isn't able to pass through now that the Taliban are back in power.

On Thursday, the president announced a series of actions to encourage K-12 schools to mandate masks for all and require vaccines for employees.

An estimated 67 undocumented immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Central America, who worked at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 are still considered missing two decades after the terrorist attacks.

A group of former models are in France giving testimony against a former prominent figure in the fashion industry, who they say raped and abused them.

NPR's Rachel Martin and Tom Bowman talk to Darryl St. George, an Afghan War veteran reflecting on the end of the mission and the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York where he was living.

-- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on how Mormons are responding to newly imposed restrictions on religious activities in Russia, which President Yeltsin signed into law on Friday. The law will limit missionary work and proselytizing by any church that can't prove it's been operating in Russia for at least 15 years and will limit the actions of foreign religious personnel. The Mormons plan to move ahead with their missionary activity. The main proponent of the new law is the Russian Orthodox Church, whose activities will not be affected.

Identical twins Richie and Ronnie Palazzolo were both working in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. Ronnie came to Storycorps to reflect.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Steve Salzburg, professor of law at George Washington University about the case of Wen Ho Lee. He says it's not unusual for the government to charge a suspect with additional felony counts in certain sensitive cases.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book tells the extraordinary story of his parents, two musicians who met while playing in the all-Jewish Kulturbund Orchestra in Nazi Germany. (7:33) Martin Goldsmith's book Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany, published by Wiley.