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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Israel where Prime Minister Ehud Barak bowed to pressure from world leaders and postponed his threat of full military engagement in the on-going conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The riots that began 12 days ago and escalated in gun-battles and mob violence that have left at least 88 dead and thousands wounded. (

Campaign financing is a big issue in this year's elections, but the biggest spending story isn't coming from the special interests. Jon Corzine, the Democratic senate candidate in New Jersey, is setting new records for spending in a senate race, but most of the money he's using is his own. NPR's Peter Overby reports. (

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that sponsors and school districts are re-thinking their support of the Boy Scouts. They believe that the Scouts anti-homosexual policies are discriminatory.

Each night this week on All Things Considered, reporter Deborah Amos examines the sixty billion dollar illegal drug trade in this country. Today in the first report from her series, Amos covers the status of America's war on drugs, and the effects on people on both sides of that war. There's more at http://www.npr.org/news/specials/drugwars/.

John Burnett reports on Mexican billionaire Carlos Hank Rhon. The Fed holds a hearing on Oct. 23 to remove Hank Rhon as the major shareholder in Laredo National Bank in Texas, saying he lied to bank regulators when he acquired majority stock. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration suspects that Hank Rhon is connected to Mexican drug cartels and uses the Texas bank to launder money. Hank Rhon and bank president Gary G. Jacobs deny all wrongdoing. Jacobs is a friend of George W. Bush and has had coffee at the White House with Bill Clinton.

Host Bob Edwards shares listener comments about our recent stories in our weekly letters segment.

Baxter Black unveils his new collection of cowboy poems both prolific and profound in a conversation with Morning Edition's Bob Edwards. It's a cowful of cowboy poetry.

MORNING SATIRE: Ever miss those simple times of yesteryear when dining out meant dining out, with no pesky cares about who grew your salad or who caught your entre? Well...you can keep missing them thanks to this skit from the NPR program Rewind, produced at member station KUOW in Seattle. (1:27

In part two of our series on the "Megatransect", an attempt by wildlife biologist Mike Fay to walk from the center of Africa to its eastern coast, Fay describes his journey through the Congo Basin. The region is filled with dense jungles and swaps. And it harbors some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Through his recorded field diary, Fay relates the difficulty his team faced as it trekked through a part of the world no human has seen in more than a century. (8:49

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the proposed merger of the second and third largest U.S. oil companies, Chevron and Texaco. Some analysts say ChevronTexaco will be better able to compete with other oil giants, but others say it's hard to predict how profitable the new company will be.