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A federal appeals court has ruled that employers who discriminate in the hiring process can be sued by the civil rights workers who help catch them in the act. The court says people who apply for jobs simply to test whether the employer will show bias against minorities can file suit -- even if they weren't really intending to work there. Similar tactics have been used to ferret out discrimination in housing. Unless appealed, this decision will now extend the practice to employment. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

NPR'S Richard Gonzales reports on today's one-day walkout by thousands of workers at northern California hospitals. The union workers include nursing assistants, respiratory therapists and food service workers.

NPR's Ted Clark examines the emerging relationship between the United States and North Korea. During the last six years, North Korea has gradually ended its isolation and moderated its confrontational approach toward the US and American allies. In return, the United States has supplied food aid. South Korea also has provided incentives to draw the North out of its isolation.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Newsweek Reporter Donatella Lorch about the UN embargo on diamond purchases from the rebels fighting to overthrow Sierra Leone's government. The UN hopes the ban will cut funding to the civil war, which has caused thousands of deaths in the West African country. Lorch says that implementing the embargo will be difficult for a variety of reasons.

From Gainesville, Texas, Janet Heimlich reports on a juvenile prison that has begun teaching inmates computer networking to give them a useful skill when they get out. The Justice Department is eyeing the program as a model to use at other juvenile facilities to keep youth from returning to crime.

Critic Kenneth Turan reviews the short film, George Lucas in Love, which is enjoying considerable success, even though it's only available on one internet site.

Josh Levs reports from Nuremberg, Germany, that the city notorious for Nazi party rallies and war crimes trials is trying to re-make its image, hoping to attract tourists and foreign investors. City officials have taken great pains to educate the public about the horrors of the Nazi past. They are trying to paint a new picture of their city as a liberal, forward looking community.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the case of Cesar Fierro, a Mexican national who is on death row for killing an El Paso taxi driver. Fierro confessed to the crime - but now, even the prosecutor in the case admits that the confession was coerced. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the error was harmless, and Fierro's chances at a new trial are remote.

When he was sixteen, Commentator Bill Harley worked at a seafood restaurant. He says learned about race, class and privilege when an angry cook hurled a baked potato at him.

In the sixth of a series of summer commentaries about minor league baseball called Play by Play, NPR's Neal Conan profiles one of the players... a man who has spent the last 14 years trying to make it in baseball.