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For example: It's illegal in the state to test the speed of your horse on a public road. And, a driving law from 1916 says you must make an audible signal, honking or shouting if you pass someone.

Noah talks with Fred Davis, a computer consultant and the author of The Windows '95 Bible. He talks about the latest in computer hardware and software being presented at the Comdex computer show...the technology industry's twice-yearly showcase...being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some of the most talked-about presentations so far have included IBM's Personal Area Network, which works with a tiny computer on a card and uses the human body...a good conductor of signals and electricity...to transfer small amounts of data. They also talk about the recent improvements to notebook computers, and the development of ultra-thin television sets, which use liquid crystal displays rather than cathode ray tubes, and can be hung on the wall like a picture.

Gen. Michael Hayden, President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, is a highly respected military man with extensive intelligence experience. But his past work was more grounded in the signal intelligence of the National Security Agency than the human intelligence he would oversee at the CIA.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that despite all the missed signals, poor intelligence and lousy communication between counter-terrorist agencies, politics did play a role in early 2001 in the inability of the U.S. government to anticipate al Qaeda attacks in the United States. Testimony before the commission investigating the government's actions before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks paints a picture of an incoming Bush administration unwilling to see the threat from al Qaeda as urgently as the outgoing Clinton administration did.

We check in with an epidemiologist and a virologist about the latest on COVID-19 in the U.S.

The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held a hearing on Tuesday focused on the role of the conspiracy theory QAnon and extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

A U.S. District Court Judge named Tanya Chutkan will preside over the trial for Trump's four criminal charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

A Minnesota judge says there is enough probable cause for a trial to proceed against Kim Potter, who faces second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright during a traffic stop in April.

The panel wants to hear from lawyers who advanced former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.