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American drug companies say they are making AIDS drugs more affordable for African countries. This week there is word the government may also do more to help: the Bush administration is said to be considering giving up to $2 billion to African countries to battle the disease. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR Health Correspondent Richard Knox.

Vintner Robert Mondavi hopes to begin planting a vinyard in France. But the idea of a California winery isn't going over well in the heart of Gaul. NPR's Sarah Chayes reports.

One year after the world's largest gunmaker, Smith & Wesson, agreed to change the way it markets and distributes firearms, the gun manufacturer is facing financial problems. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the current problems facing the postal service. For the past two years, it has lost money and is expecting to lose money again this year. And that may mean closing post offices in smaller towns. Not to mention another increase in the cost of a first class stamp.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on a town meeting in Annapolis, Maryland held by Senators McCain and Feingold on their campaign finance bill.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that the newly independent country of Georgia has been encountering resistance as it tries to distance itself from Russia, which feels that it still has claims over this formerly Soviet region.

NPR's Rachel Jones reports on the effort to cut the number ofd eaths from SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

John talks with Kate Blewett and Brian Woods, the the producers of a new documentary on child slavery in India's carpet industry.

John talks about one of Maryland's last tobacco auctions.

This Sunday marks the anniversary of one of the worst school disasters in U.S. history-- the 1937 gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas. John talks to Mollie Ward, who saw the blast as a New London fourth-grader and now directs a new museum dedicated to the tragedy.