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NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in Washington, D.C., today, meeting with Bush administration officials. He meets with the president tomorrow.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. A new criminal complaint alleges he forcibly touched a female staff member.

Host Bob Edwards remembers singer/songwriter John Phillips, who died of a heart attack on Sunday morning. The co-founder of the Mamas and the Papas and organizer of the Monterey Pop Festival penned many popular 1960s tunes, such as California Dreamin'.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that big businesses, such as the Boeing Corporation and Caterpillar, are dismayed that President Bush's budget would deeply cut a government finance program for foreign buyers.

NPR's Margot Adler begins Morning Edition's four-part series on literacy by trying to define it. Educators struggle about whether to focus on fact-based knowledge or on critical thinking skills in the classroom.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea. Tomorrow marks two months in office for President Bush, and he's made his mark on both U.S. policy and the job of president itself.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Center about House lawmakers questing oil executives about alleged disinformation concerning fossil fuels' effect on global warming.

Every day is like Halloween when you're the children of costumed circus performers. Siblings Fritzi and Bobby Huber recount the time that their parents made their first Halloween extraordinary.

NPR's Guy Raz in Ankara reports many Turks are questioning their government's dealings with the International Monetary Fund. They say the recent financial crisis would not have occurred if the government had refused to implement IMF-backed economic reforms.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that a high-profile French corruption trial was thrown into disarray today when a key defendant refused to testify. The defendant -- former oil executive Alfred Sirvan -- once boasted he had enough compromising information about former government officials "to blow the republic sky high." But when he appeared in court, he refused to answer any questions. Sirven's lawyers said he will talk -- but only after all related investigations into the corruption scandal are completed. Among the Sirven's co-defendants is former French foreign minister Roland Dumas.