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Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

Back in the seventeenth century, explorers told of seas teeming with giant marine creatures. A group of researchers concluded that these were an accurate account of life in the oceans at the time. As John Nielsen reports, these fabulous aquatic ecosystems collapsed as humans started to hunt these creatures.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports Brazilian soccer may be caught up in a game of kickbacks and money laundering. Allegedly players are being bought and sold with money deposited into as many as thirty different bank accounts. The Brazilian congress is holding hearings to settle the allegations of corruption.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on Mexico's booming underground economy, which now accounts for up to half of all sales in certain sectors. The government and industry leaders want Mexico's street vendors to begin paying taxes. Not surprisingly, the vendors are resisting.

NASA investigators are continuing to comb through telemetry data and internal records, examine debris and evaluate other sources of information includic home videos and eyewitess accounts. Meanwhile the remains of the astronauts arrive at Dover Air Force Base. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about the president's proposal for $3,000 un-employment accounts.

Personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war. This diary entry is from Rachel O'Rourke and Kathy Erdolf, both war demonstrators, in Portland, Ore.

An outside legal review of NPR's handling of allegations against former top news executive Michael Oreskes found that questions were raised about his behavior even before he was hired.

Plus, the Spokane County Medical Examiner stopped serving Kootenai County—so Kootenai’s coroner is turning a break kitchen into an autopsy lab. And WA Democrats remember the Jan. 6 insurrection.

New arrivals in the top 10 include James and Charlotte, the Social Security Administration says.