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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Ramallah on Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the Middle East. Today he was in the West Bank and will travel to Kuwait tomorrow.

President Bush plans to present an outline of his budget plan to Congress on Tuesday. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the march of Zapatista rebels to the Mexican capital, where they hope to renew the peace process.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS in San Diego reports that California residents may face higher gas prices as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision yesterday. The court upheld a patent held by Unocal Corp on the reformulated gasoline that is used in California and in many other urban areas around the country. Now the major oil companies will have to begin paying royalties to Unocal.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a study at Johns Hopkins University School of Health. Researchers found that riding a bike while intoxicated increases the risk of injury or death.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that a new study claims to have found a correlation between the amount of traffic in Atlanta and the number of children making trips to the hospital due to asthma attacks. The study looked at reduced traffic during the 1996 Olympic Games and the corresponding decrease in recorded asthma attacks.

New York City taxi drivers are now in the second week of a hunger strike outside City Hall in Manhattan. They're demanding debt relief for thousands of drivers who are facing financial ruin.

It looks a little more like a fire truck than an S.U.V. DaimlerChrysler is planning to begin marketing a massive four wheel drive vehicle called the UNIMOG in the United States. The truck was made by Mercedes for fifty years. In 1999, Elizabeth Bailey and her friends drove from Chile to Texas in a Mercedes Unimog. She talks to Noah Adams about driving this enormous vehicle.

When checking out of a Greek hotel, Commentator Jeffrey Tayler asked for a receipt. The hotel owner did not want to write one.

The record labels have begun to respond to the settlement offer Napster made public yesterday, an offer Napster claims it's had on the table for months. NPR's Rick Karr reports.