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The Supreme Court has ruled against the football players union, which was trying to sue the National Football League. The justices say the players may not sue on anti-trust grounds if the league imposes certain salary levels, after a collective bargaining impasse. The court says the players' recourse is to the National Labor Relations Board, not the federal courts. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that the ruling affects all unionized workers, not just the football players.

s decision-making style, and how he's likely to apply it to some major decisions between now and the Republican convention in August.

Scott talks to Joe Nocera, contributing writer for Fortune Magazine, about two money investment ideas whose origins can be traced to New England: Ponzi schemes and mutual funds.

Schorr/ Simon: Scott and NPR's Dan Schorr review the week's news.

of Yeltsin and his main Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how the kind of jet engine that exploded on a Delta flight over the weekend works, and how such incidents can occur.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports from the White House on President Clinton's first meeting with the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Though Clinton favored the election of Netanyahu's more moderate opponent in last May's election, both he and the new Prime Minister sought to patch up their differences and reaffirm traditional US-Israeli solidarity.

and how things look halfway through the season.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has a story about a bear named No Neck, who walked across the Florida Panhandle and three states until he got to Baton Rouge. Why Baton Rouge? Only No Neck knows.

at the International AIDS conference going on in Vancouver, Canada this week...