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N-P-R's Jon Greenberg reports from Washington on President linton's latest attempt to appeal to voters by updating a familiar campaign heme: the economy.

Last week, as Israeli newspaper revealed a series of clandestine meetings between Israelis and Palestinians. Robert Siegel talks with one of the settler leaders in Gaza and the West Bank, Yisrael Harel, who says that the newspaper story was a leak from Prime Minister Shimon Peres's office. Harel and two others took part is secret meetings with Palestinians.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NPR'S HOWARD BERKES ON THE CASE BUILDING UP AGAINST THEODORE KACZYNSKI, THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE UNABOMBER.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the six year old boy in California who has been charged with attempted murder in the near beating death of a one month old baby. Authorities aren't yet releasing the boy's name but they say he's the youngest person ever to be charged with a felony.

This past week, the Senate passed it's version of the Health Care Reform bill. It includes a measure that would require insurance companies to cover mental health costs in a manner comparable to coverage of physical health care. The measure attempts to remedy what activist groups claim is discrimination against people with mental health disabilities. Daniel speaks with Shelley Jackson who is a staff attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She says there are widespread instances of discrimination against people with mental health disabilities, particularly in the workplace.

that would have banned a rare type of late-term abortion and the possible political cost of that veto.

proposal today for reforming private pension plans. It's intended to encourage more small employers to offer retirement plans to their workers and to make it easier for workers to take their pension plans with them when they change jobs.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that the United States and Israel have agreed to install a new set of anti-missile defenses in Israel, as part of an effort to keep enemy rockets from ever hitting Israeli soil. Recent attempts to bomb the hiding places of Hezbollah guerillas firing rockets at Israel have had one disastrous side effect--heavy civilian casualties. That seems to be one of the reasons why Israel and the United States will rush to finish testing and installing an anti-missile system whose key components exist only as prototypes.

a week-old cease-fire continues... This past week, diplomats from the U-S traveled to Liberia to urge faction leaders to restrain their teen-aged fighters. They hope to revive a peace process which had ended more than six years of civil war.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon about the pandemic and Scottish independence at the Aspen Security Forum.