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Residents near the Hunts Point Market in the South Bronx pressure city leaders to make quality, affordable food available to them. The market imports huge quantities of food each day for shipment across the country, but skips over nearby groceries. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.

The United Nations says it deplores North Korea's decision over the weekend to remove U.N. surveillance cameras and other monitoring equipment from its nuclear facilities. The equipment was installed in 1994 to ensure North Korea would not use its large stockpile of plutonium to produce nuclear weapons. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

South Korea holds talks with North Korea's chief ally China in hopes of defusing a showdown between Washington and Pyongyang. Washington refuses to negotiate directly with North Korea over its plans to resume its nuclear weapons program. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports Wall Street's top brokerage firms agreed to pay nearly $1.5 billion in fines to settle conflict-of-interest charges. Regulators accused the firms of continuing to recommend stocks they privately had turned against. Besides fines, the firms agree to spend several hundred million dollars in coming years buying research from independent firms that don't mix stock research with investment banking.

NPR's Bob Edwards reports officials with the Federal Aviation Administration will be checking to make sure United Airlines and U.S. Airways don't compromise maintenance now that they have both declared bankruptcy. Increased supervision by the FAA is prompted by an airline having financial problems, labor unrest or rapid growth.

California passed a bill this year that would require the adoption of new efficiency standards for clothes washers. The state is looking to manage its water needs in the long term. Its population is growing, and the Bush Administration is cracking down on its water usage from the Colorado River. NPR's Robert Siegel reports on some of the latest models of efficient washers, and takes note of the last time government mandated more efficient water usage by a major household appliance.

North Korea urges South Koreans to join it in confronting the United States over its nuclear program. South Korea is a U.S. ally, but it's keeping an ear open to the communist-ruled North. South Koreans fear the Bush administration could drag them into a war. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

President Bush nominates Wall Street veteran William Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Donaldson was chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1990's and is a long-time friend of President Bush's family. He's also co-founder of the firm, Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Senate GOP leader Trent Lott apologizes for his remark -- made last week at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday -- that hinted Lott approved of Thurmond's segregationist platform during the veteran lawmaker's 1948 presidential campaign. But members of the Congressional Black Caucus urge the senator to step down as Republican leader in the Senate. NPR's David Welna reports.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether laws that ban cross-burning violate the First Amendment guarantee of free expression under the Constitution. The justices will hear a challenge to a Virginia law by three men who were convicted after attending a rally of the Ku Klux Klan. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.