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NPR's Peter Overby reports from Washington, D.C., about the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. After years of being blocked by partisan politics, McCain-Feingold may finally pass, effectively changing the rules of political fundraising. (4:01) For more NPR News coverage on the issue, check out Money, Power & Influence.

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, reviews The Tailor of Panama, based on John Le Carre's novel. The film involves an British expatriate living in Panama and working as a tailor, and a British spy who's hoping he can tap into the tailor's connections in Panamanian high-society.

NPR's David Welna reports that the House passed a bill to cut taxes for most married couples. Abolishing this so-called marriage penalty is part of the president's tax-cut plan.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Beira, in Northern Mozambique, about regional flooding which is forcing people to leave their homes for the second year in a row. The United Nations estimates that floodwaters have forced 200,000 people to flee their homes. Relief agencies and Mozambique's government are working on ways to minimize damage from the annual flooding.

To conclude Morning Edition's week-long series of college admissions essays, we hear Leah Knobler of Cincinnati talk about her relationship with her overachieving older brother, Jonah.

Members of Congress today asked NASA whether the agency can contain cost overruns for the International Space Station. The White House wants NASA to curtail construction on the station in order to make up for budget problems. Some members of Congress seem worried that the station won't be much good if it's missing key components. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Rob Gifford about the view from Beijing of the situation involving the American reconnaissance airplane. He says the Chinese public seems to want an apology from the U.S. but the level of anger has not reached the height that it did in 1999 after the accidental U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Edward Goldberg, Director of the Medici Archive Project, about his work with the Medici family archive in Florence, Italy. The archive is a collection of virtually every letter sent or received by the Medici court during its rule from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s. The correspondence reveals a great deal about Italian art and early modern European history. Goldberg and his colleagues are documenting and digitizing each letter, and hope to have the project complete by 2012. (6:28) For more on the project, check out our Medici Archive Web page.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports China continues to hold 24 U.S. service men and women and their surveillance plane, which was damaged in a mid-air collision with a Chinese jet fighter on Sunday. Today, the United States issued a conciliatory statement expressing regret that a Chinese pilot was apparently killed in the accident. But the U.S. stopped short of an apology. It says the U.S. crew was not to blame for the collision.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr compares two incidents involving American spy planes: the current standoff with China over the damaged EP-3E and the 1960 standoff with Russia over a downed U-2.