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NPR's Shirley Jahad reports on today's announcement by the Mormon Church of a new resource for genealogical research. The church has compiled archives of the Freedman's Bank, for former slaves, onto CD-ROM which will make the records more easily accessible to the public.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on how the administration readies for tomorrow night's speech by President Bush before a joint session of Congress on his budget. Mr. Bush is trying to win approval of his tax-cut program. But for most Americans, this will be their first real opportunity to see the president in action since the inauguration.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on letters allegedly written by FBI agent Robert Phillip Hanssen -- letters that are now leading investigators to believe Hanssen has been supplying Russia with top-level U.S. security information for the past 15 years.

Robert Siegel talks with Eric Anderson of public radio station KPBS about a school shooting in Santee, Calif., near San Diego. One student and one faculty member are reported dead and more than 10 people are wounded. A male student, who is a suspect, was taken into custody at Santana High School.

Liane speaks with Ivan Watson from Benin about the plight of a ship reported to be carrying more than 100 children, alledgedly destined to work as slave laborers in Gabon. The ship has not been heard from since it left Cameroon last Thursday.

Anthony Kuhn reports on the conclusion of meetings between Chinese and American officials. Each side gave its own version of events between the U.S. spy plane and the Chinese fighter jet.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli army is calling up large numbers of reservists to deal with the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Some reservists complain that too many Israelis are successfully evading their national duty while others question the morality of serving in occupied territories.

NPR's Emily Harris reports that the FCC has voted to allow large TV networks to own smaller ones. The first company to benefit is Viacom which, now that it owns both CBS and UPN, would have faced selling the smaller network. The restriction that the FCC lifted had been intended to encourage programming diversity.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports a huge dust cloud that started in the deserts of Mongolia in western China has gradually made its way east, picking up industrial pollution on the way. It has now crossed the Pacific and reached North America, creating a haze from Arizona to western Canada.

Timothy McVeigh is scheduled to become the first person put to death by the federal government in 38 years. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the recent history of, and controversy surrounding, the federal death penalty. (8:00) Check out other NPR News coverage of the death penalty.