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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, about crafting the Democrats' spending bill and options to raise taxes on the rich to pay for his party's priorities.

President Biden has announced a new security partnership between the U.S., U.K. and Australia focused on the Indo-Pacific region. It includes the sharing of nuclear submarine technology to Australia.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will remain in office after a Republican-led recall effort failed. The special election cost the state nearly $300 million in taxpayers' money.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Johannesburg reports long-simmering differences within South Africa's ruling party burst into the open this week with allegations that three prominent members of the party were plotting to oust President Thabo Mbeki.

In Oberlin, Ohio, young children have found a public voice -- over the airwaves of WOBC, the local college radio station. Two college seniors produce I'm on the Stereo, a program featuring interviews with -- and sometimes hosted by -- kids ages 4 to 18. Linda Wertheimer speaks with the producers of the show, and some of their young radio stars. (8:00) I'm on the Stereo's Web site.

Finance ministers and bankers are gathered in Washington this weekend for a meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. They will need to address several difficult issues including a slowdown in global growth and financial crises in two big emerging markets. NPR's John Ydstie reports.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr uses President Bush's hundred-day mark to discuss the administration's foreign policy with Robert Hunter, former ambassador to NATO, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy.

The trial of Thomas Blanton Jr., a suspect in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls, continues. Scott speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott.

From member station WNYC, Beth Fertig reports on a decision by the state of New York to require small, alternative schools to participate in the state testing program. Educators at these "break the mold" schools say that will stifle the creativity that makes them successful with students who feel lost in larger, more structured schools.

The science still has a long way to go, but many researchers believe that using stem cells from human embryos holds great promise as a way of treating diseases. As the Bush administration tries to decide whether or not to allow federal funding to be used for such research, NPR's Joe Palca reports on the two new studies that scientists hope may show the administration just how valuable stem cell therapy could be.