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Cy Musiker of member station KQED in San Francisco reports that public utility commission officials are set to approve a rate hike in electricity today. They hope to stunt usage by charging higher prices.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that the Senate has approved a measure to restrict late-campaign advertising by advocate groups. Some claim this will make the entire bill unconstitutional. (3:35) Check out NPR News coverage of Power, Money & Influence.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Las Vegas on the attempts of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to unionize Wal-Mart's nearly one million employees. But Wal-Mart's deep pockets and extremely high employee turnover rates are big obstacles for UFCW.

In early 19th-century America, dime museums were popular attractions. So named because admission cost $.10, these "museums" were eccentric collections of the bizarre: stuffed two-headed calves, petrified mummies, and dragon fossils. Some of it might have been real. Now two showmen in the old time tradition have opened the American Dime Museum in Baltimore. Harriet Baskas paid them a visit.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today takes up the question of how much a jury should consider mental capacity of a defendant when deciding capital punishment cases. (8:32) Check out NPR News coverage of the Supreme Court.

In the second of four Radio Expedition reports, NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the search in Central Africa for an elusive member of the ape family. It may be a gorilla, a very large chimpanzee, or perhaps another apelike creature that's unfamiliar to scientists. The mysterious creature is referred to as "the Bili Ape," after the area in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the search is taking place.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Doctor Cheryl Healton of the anti-tobacco American Legacy Foundation. They discuss the Surgeon General's report out today highlighting the differences between smoking habits of men and women. Women especially are the targets of aggressive marketing campaigns.

Commentator Ev Ehrlich consults the pet.com sock puppet about what lies ahead for companies like the one he used to work for before it went bankrupt.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts. Congress starts debate this week on the federal budget.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Secretary of Education Roderick Paige. The former Houston superintendent of schools says that although in the past Republicans have wanted to abolish the Department of Education, President Bush is dedicated to public schools.