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Host Bob Edwards talks to Sen. Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee. The surgeon and Chairman of the African Affairs subcommittee says the United States needs to provide significantly more money to fund AIDS treatment programs in developing countries, especially in Africa. He says the U.S. has "a moral obligation to do everything possible to have AIDS drugs flow to those countries at as low a price as possible."

A study filed with federal regulators today alleges that wholesale electricity suppliers overcharged California by $6 billion in the last year. The California state power grid operator prepared the study of pricing data in an effort to seek reimbursement for the overcharges. Scott Horsley reports from member station KPBS in San Diego.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the criticisms of President Bush's faith-based initiative and his policy on power plant emissions. The latest blow came yesterday in New Jersey, and distracted from the president's efforts to promote his budget and tax cut proposals.

With the continuing violence, convincing tourists to come to Israel has been a hard sell these past few months. Israeli officials say tourism is down about 60 percent. With that in mind, they've launched a new ad campaign, urging people to visit "the Israel you don't see on the nightly news." Uzi Gafni, who represents Israel's ministry for tourism in North America, talks with Linda Wertheimer.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that the British government has called-in its military to help with the outbreak of foot-and mouth disease there. Nineteen new cases were found yesterday. Farmers are furious about the government's handling of slaughtered animals, as corpses pile up and rot. The tourism industry faces hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

In the final part of our Changing Face of America series on homeschooling, NPR's Chris Arnold reports on some of the companies that are marketing educational materials to homeschool families. Parents must decide on a curriculum for each of the some $2 million homeschooled children in the country -- and there are plenty of companies willing to sell them textbooks, video courses and 8th Grade in a Box CD-Roms.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on the newest endeavor by artist James Turrell -- an exhibit featuring drawings and videos of his study of light in an extinct volcano. Check out the Roden Crater. (6:52

The Biden administration believes the resulting legislation will still be transformative, but it is far less than what the president originally proposed.

For the people of LaPlace, La. the destruction of Hurricane Ida was on another level. And that has some residents considering moving away before the next one.

Caterpillar's third-quarter sales and revenues were up 25 percent in 2021, compared to this time last year.