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NPR's Kenneth Walker reports on the Zimbabwean government's continuing crackdown on independent journalists and news organizations.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Representatives Roy Blunt (R-MO) and John Spratt (D-SC). They take a look at President Bush's budget, which was released yesterday.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the steep costs of providing electricity to California through the summer months. A California consumer group is releasing a report that predicts the amount could be as high as $50 billion.

President Bush spoke briefly to reporters today about the continuing standoff over the 24 Americans being held on the Chinese island of Hainan. The 24 were crew members aboard a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft that was forced down after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet 10 days ago. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from the White House.

Pet Parenting -- The BBC's Charles Scanlon reports that as couples choose to have fewer children, Japan's pet population has skyrocketed. But dog-parenting comes with its own problems.

Rachael Myrow from member station KPCC in Los Angeles reports on Gov. Davis' plans to help California out of its power crisis.

Commentator Baxter Black details a specific kind of person, at least in his world view -- the Horse Person.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on Amtrak's latest contribution to passenger happiness. It's a car in the train where riders will find a quieter environment.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the Norway Drug Conference, where people from the pharmaceutical industry, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization will discuss making life-saving drugs more affordable to people in developing countries.

20 nations are responsible for 80% of the world's carbon emissions. Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, we look at what China, India and Brazil — three of the world's biggest emitters — are doing.

Joe Manchin has played a central role in Democrats' negotiations over the spending agenda. His ties to West Virginia's coal industry have put him at odds with his party's push for a greener future.

How many monthly fees are too many for one consumer to handle? With the advent of more and more communications technology -- like DSL service, cell phones, pagers, cable TV, and now satellite radio -- the number of bills for tech-savvy households is growing. Robert Siegel talks with Howard Horowitz, president of Horowitz Associates in New York about whether this trend can continue.

NPR's David Welna reports the Senate has approved a federal budget with a tax cut that falls about $400 billion short of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut plan.

Robert Siegel talks with Maryland State Sen. Barbara Hoffman, a Democrat from Baltimore, about her proposal to require gun safety courses for all Maryland public school students. The legislation passed the House of Delegates yesterday in a vote 98 to 32. If the Senate passes it, and the governor signs it, Maryland would be the first state in the nation to require firearms instruction.

Rex Doane of NPR's On the Media has the story of corporate anthems -- elaborate songs and even shows that were geared not to the customer, but to the employees. The songs -- like a school fight song or a national anthem -- were meant to elevate morale.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment rate notched up another tenth of a percent today to 4.3 percent. And the Labor Department said the economy lost 86,000 jobs in March -- the biggest monthly job loss in nearly a decade.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on disappointing results released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- a report known as the "nation's report card." Reading scores of fourth graders have improved little over the last eight years and the achievement gap between white and minority students remains substantial.

Despite months of work by the state of California to bail out its largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, the company filed for bankruptcy this morning. PG&E's financial problems are the direct result of the California state law that deregulated the electricity market. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

NPR's Melissa Block reports the prosecution has rested in the trial of four men accused in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In presenting its case in New York, the prosecutors called dozens of witnesses and presented a range of evidence from tapes of wiretapped phone conversations to network news interviews with Osama Bin Laden. Some of the most powerful testimony came from people who were injured in the bombings.

Storyteller Bailey White details adventures in trying to find her car as exhaust fumes cloud her senses and conjure up hallucinations of the underworld.

Robert Siegel talks to Helene Stapinksi, the author of Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, a book about growing up in Jersey City, N.J., where the whole town seemed to be on the take. (7:30) Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, by Helene Stapinski, is published by Random House, 2001, ISBN # 0679463062.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Iranian movie, The Day I Became A Woman. It tells the stories of a young girl, a young woman and an older woman in Iran, and their places in society. It opens today.

NPR's Ivan Watson in Monrovia reports there are few signs of recovery or reconstruction in Liberia four years after the end of the country's long civil war. Now, the United Nations is threatening to impose sanctions on the Liberian government.

The standoff with China over the EP-3 reconnaissance plane has the United States in a very difficult diplomatic position. Noah Adams speaks with Kenneth Lieberthal, currently a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and formerly senior director for Asia on the National Security Council. They discuss some of the positions the U.S. could take against China. Lieberthal says they all carry their share of problems.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports the population of the Intermountain West, including Nevada, Arizona, Colorado Utah and Idaho, is the fastest growing in the country. And the region is experiencing growing pains. The boom is stressing water supplies, air quality and the general quality of life.