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NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's Supreme Court decision upholding the Clean Air Act. The justices unanimously rejected industry arguments that standards must be tempered by the cost of compliance. The law only requires the government to consider public health in setting air-quality standards.

NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Michele Kelemen reports the ongoing violence in the Middle East figured prominently in the State Department's annual report on Human Rights, issued today in Washington. Israel is criticized in the report for a disproportionate use of force against Palestinian protestors, but human rights activists say the criticism was too mild.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem. Israel's Labor Party has voted to accept Prime-Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's invitation to join a national unity government. The decision clears the way for Sharon to start coalition talks with other parties.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in Indonesia. Thousands of refugees are fleeing the island of Borneo amid skirmishes between soldiers and police.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a newly released CD-ROM with searchable archives of a Civil War-era bank used by former slaves. For more information on the searchable archives, check out www.media.lds.org

Host Bob Edwards talks with Khidhir Hamza, former head of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. After defecting from Iraq, he wrote a memoir -- in collaboration with Jeff Stein -- called Saddam's Bombmaker, in which he tells how close Iraq came to building a working bomb.

NPR's Alex Chadwick traipses through an Australian forest custom-grown for koala bears. He learns that koalas have the finicky appetites of toddlers -- they eat eucalyptus leaves, or nothing at all.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Eisenstein, editor of The Car Connection.Com, about the plan unveiled yesterday by DaimlerChrysler to help pull its ailing partners--Chrysler and Mitsubishi--out of the red by 2002.

Arguments began yesterday in Microsoft's appeal of the court order that the company be split apart. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the proceedings.

Peoria City-County Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson expects the CDC to give final approval to the children's vaccine in coming weeks.