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President Bush has delayed for 60 days a possible strike by Northwest Airline's mechanics. Other major airlines facing labor troubles see today's federal intervention as a signal the president may help them avert strikes too. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the criticisms of President Bush's faith-based initiative and his policy on power plant emissions. The latest blow came yesterday in New Jersey, and distracted from the president's efforts to promote his budget and tax cut proposals.

A study filed with federal regulators today alleges that wholesale electricity suppliers overcharged California by $6 billion in the last year. The California state power grid operator prepared the study of pricing data in an effort to seek reimbursement for the overcharges. Scott Horsley reports from member station KPBS in San Diego.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on President Bush's plan to cut taxes. Many members of Congress fear the plan will follow the pattern of the Reagan tax-cut in 1981, which quickly ballooned with breaks and favors for special interests.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports that thousands of supporters of Russia's independent NTV television channel rallied in St. Petersburg yesterday, backing what the station's journalists call a fight against the Kremlin to save free media.

More and more family court judges are facing men who argue they should no longer have to pay child support -- because a DNA test has proven they are not the father. From member station WBUR in Boston, Monica Brady reports on one such case in Massachusetts.

The new budget details released by the administration today did not cause much stir on Capitol Hill, with the House and Senate on recess and most of the halls of Congress deserted. But there were a few leaders on hand from both parties to parse the stack of bound blue volumes and search for a bottom line. NPR's David Welna reports.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on President Bush's education budget for the next fiscal year. It calls for a nearly six-percent increase in funding for school programs and gives states more flexibility in how to spend federal funds.

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.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli government and many ordinary Israelis are holding Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Eight years ago, following signature of the Oslo accords, the Palestinian leader was hailed in Israel as a partner for peace, but few Israelis apparently still hold that view.