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In a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, Kindercare, the country's largest day-care chain has agreed to accept toddlers who are diabetic. The settlement grew out of a lawsuit against a Columbus, Ohio center that refused to accept a child whose blood sugar required monitoring, The Ohio center said it could not perform the "medical procedure." NPR's Joe Palca looks at what the ramifications of the settlement are.

President Clinton began a three-day campaign swing today that will take him to Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and California. Today in Kansas City, the president addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Governors' Association and said that the welfare reform legislation he recently signed will only be successful if states and businesses can work together to create jobs. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

is widespread in Russia, President Boris Yeltsin had to withdraw a decree that would have allowed the tax collection authorities to access people's bank accounts.

magazine columnist Joe Nocera discuss the downside of socially responsible investing.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

Tomorrow is the first Monday in October, and Liane Hansen speaks with va Rodriguez, reporter for "Legal Times" magazine, about the upcoming Supreme ourt session.

that would deny public education to children whose parents are in the country illegally. Such an immigration amendment is scheduled for consideration next month, when Congress returns from summer recess.

In an emotional address to the delegates, Nancy Reagan thanked them for giving her and her husband a life in politics, and regretted that former president Ronald Reagan was unable to speak to them this week.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that America Online is embarking on an expensive promotional campaign and switching stock exchanges in a bid to reposition itself in the face of growing competition. America Online grew to prominence as a NASDAQ stock, but is moving to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a broader campaign to increase public visibility.

Commentator Katherine Kersten says that the modern welfare state is built on a false premise that the goal of human life is to be happy and comfortable...and that it is the government's role to ensure that people are happy.