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NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing on the U.S. Navy personnel held in China after their spy plane made an emergency landing. U.S. diplomats are expected to be allowed access to them today.

Commentator Kevin Phillips examines the rivalry between President Bush and Senator John McCain. He wonders if McCain can give the Republican Party the second chance they'll need in 2004.

Mark Moran of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports that the Tucson Air Force Base is testing "Giant Voice:" a loudspeaker that can project for up to six miles. The residents nearby hate it.

President Bush had a series of photo ops today, on the eve of the summit. Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about the President's agenda at the summit.

Robert Siegel speaks with John Hutson, the dean of Franklin Pearce Law School in Concord, New Hampshire about the legal procedures against the captain of a U.S. submarine that collided with a Japanese vessel off Hawaii earlier this year. Cmdr. Scott Waddle -- the captain of the USS Greeneville -- faces disciplinary action that will likely end his career. Nine people from the Japanese ship -- a trawler used to teach high school students to fish -- died in the accident. Hutson is a retired Navy rear admiral and Navy judge advocate general.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports Mexico's President Vicente Fox has proposed an ambitious plan for economic development in the south of Mexico. NAFTA -- the North American Free Trade Agreement -- has so-far only benefited the northern part of the country. In the south, Fox has proposed building a trade corridor to attract factories and investment. But workers in the south are worried about being exploited. And Zapatista Indians say the plan will disrupt their way of life.

NPR's David Welna reports on his visit to West Houston this week with a Republican member of the House, Texas' John Culberson. Culberson represents a safe Republican district, one that first elected President Bush's father to Congress. But Culberson won the seat only five months ago, and he used the congressional recess -- and a town hall meeting -- to share views with his constituents.

Film Critic Bob Mondello reviews The Visit, based on a true story about a man dying of AIDS in prison, waiting for a visit from his unforgiving father. It stars Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams, Felicia Rashad, and others. Mondello was surprised at how affirmative it is.

NPR's Joe Palca reports from Plum Island which, by law, is the only place in the United States allowed to handle Foot and Mouth Disease.

President Bush heads to Quebec City today for a meeting North and South American leaders. Commentator Andrew Malcolm says the United States is so focused on a global foreign policy agenda that it often takes its nearer neighbor Canada for granted.