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Reporter Jennifer Glasse reports from Kinshasa on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan's announcement today that he was withdrawing a team of investigators who have been probing massacres of Rwandan refugees in the Congo. The team has encountered persistent obstacles while attempting to gather information about Hutu refugee killings.

Tape and copy about Cambodia's "killing fields." American journalist David Hawke visited Cambodia shortly after the Khmer Rouge were driven from power. He describes what he discovered in an interview seen on PBS' "Vietnam: A Television History."

NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports from George, South Africa. This morning, the two-day-old trial of former President P.W. Botha was suspended until June. Botha is charged with refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Prosecutors at the trial also have been submitting evidence about alleged state-sanctioned human rights offenses committed during Botha's term as president.

Commentator Iain Guest saw the killing fields dug up in 1980, and returned to Cambodia in 1992 to work with the United Nations. He feels that Pol Pot's legacy has been thoroughly distorted.

There's a growing call for entertainment award categories to no longer be split by gender. Some nonbinary performers say these gendered divisions erase their identity.

While Idaho Gov. Brad Little left the state for a trip, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is running for the governor's seat in 2022, issued an order to ban mask and vaccine mandates even further.

Janet Jackson's Control turns 35 this week. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sam Sanders of It's Been A Minute, who investigated the album's making and legacy to commemorate the anniversary.

Some 13,000 Afghan refugees who escaped the Taliban forces find themselves in an Army base in rural Wisconsin. They await resettlement in communities across the nation.

The case's central issue concerns whether a Guantánamo Bay detainee who has never been charged with a crime can subpoena testimony from the CIA contractors who supervised his torture.

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen electrified Washington on Tuesday with testimony about how the company knew about potential harm to users and decided to hide that information.