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NPR's Nancy Marshall reports on a scam that many consumers who shop over the phone are discovering: buying clubs. The services add you to their membership list, and then add their membership fee to your credit card bill without the customer's consent.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the goal-setting agreement signed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend. Thousands of protesters outside the conference did not seem to distract the leaders of western hemisphere nations from planning a "Free Trade Area of the Americas" that would expand NAFTA to include 34 countries.

NPR 's Claudio Sanchez reports on a movement in the Senate, led by Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords. Jeffords wants to ensure more money is allocated for special education and under-funded schools, before allowing President Bush's budget to pass.

NPR's Madeline Brand reports on the House debate over the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act." The bill passed in the House by a vote of 252-to-172. President Bush has said he'll sign it if it crosses his desk.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on state and federal reaction to a plan to provide California with power during the summer months. The proposal was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) earlier this week. But California Gov. Gray Davis, and President Bush, are far from happy.

Jack Williams, from member station KUHF reports on a literary event in Houston last night, benefiting the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. President Bush attended the event and took the opportunity to poke fun at himself for his well-publicized grammatical gaffes.

Nigeria has so far been spared the worst of the AIDS epidemic ravaging Africa. But doctors say the country is running out of time to isolate the disease before it explodes into the general population. NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Lagos on efforts at AIDS education and prevention.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art has mounted an ad campaign on billboards around the city. The billboards are, in effect, labels for the settings in which they're located. Imagine the city as if it were a painting, and you'll get the idea. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that four men go on trial today in New York for bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The men are suspected to be tied to a radical terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the recent FBI spy scandal has caused the agency to consider testing its employees more often with polygraphs. The benefit is that a spy has less chance to pass information to the enemy. The cost is that a false-positive rate of about 15 percent can ruin the lives of innocent people.