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NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the settlement of the legal battle between the American Booksellers Association and two of the nation's largest chains: Barnes and Noble, and Borders.

A new program in Los Angeles called Homeless Court helps homeless people with minor offenses on their record clean their slate. Kristen Muller of member station KCRW in Los Angeles reports.

NPR's David Welna reports on the deal reached between the House and the Senate on President Bush's budget plan. The compromise includes a major reduction in the amount of Mr. Bush's proposed tax cut.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that while crime rates for boys are dropping, more girls are being picked up for criminal offenses.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports on how the government is trying to curb the possibility of international passengers carrying foot-and-mouth disease to the United States through Boston's Logan Airport

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Vatican officials have been ordered by Italy's environment minister to reduce the power of the radio transmitters that broadcast the Pope's speeches.

The 24 crew members of the American reconnaissance plane will be debriefed by U.S. officials about their experience, starting with the accident that forced their emergency landing on Hainan Island. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the debriefing process.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports that the nation's biggest online securities broker, Schwab corporations, announced it will lay off some 13-percent of its workforce.