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A federal judge tosses a legal challenge brought by the General Accounting Office, in which the agency sought to learn more about meetings between Vice President Dick Cheney, energy company lobbyists and oil industry officials. NPR's Michele Norris discusses the case with NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Spain's military sends reinforcements to the country's northwest coast to help clean up oil from the sunken tanker Prestige. Despite assurances by the Spanish government that the oil would freeze in the hull, a research sub confirms the oil is streaming out. Hear Jerome Socolovsky.

Journalist Owen Bennett Jones is the author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. In the book, he examines the country's turbulent 55-year history. He'll discuss Pakistan's history and its current relationship with the United States. Jones lives in England and has written for The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent newspapers and the London Review of Books. He has also reported for BBC Radio and BBC World Television.

President Bush today traveled from Prague to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the close of NATO's transformation summit. This is the first time a meeting of all NATO leaders was held behind the old Iron Curtain. Yesterday the Atlantic alliance invited seven East European countries into its ranks. Today's proceedings focused on NATO's relations with Russia. NPR's Guy Raz is in Prague.

Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Dallek, a history professor at Boston University, about Storm Thurmond's 1948 presidential run on the Dixiecrat ticket. Last Thursday at Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate GOP Leader Trent Lott said that if Thurmond had been elected president, "...we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

Commentator Jesus Mena started working in farm fields when he was 8 years old along with his parents, and he hated it. Now, he is an administrator at Harvard University and he thought that his family was beyond working the fields. But this past summer, his son took a job on a farm.

Regional carriers such as Atlantic Coast Airlines, SkyWest, and Air Wisconsin are contracted by United Airlines to provide service from small market airports to the larger hubs. They're actually making money. Robert Siegel talks with Douglas Abbey, aviation consultant with AvStart, about how these smaller airlines operate and how United's bankruptcy might affect them.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about college football's upcoming championship matchup and other bowl games. The only two undefeated teams will compete for the national title. Number one Miami is up against number two Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

CSX Chairman John Snow is reportedly President Bush's choice to replace Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. Bush also reportedly will name former Goldman Sachs co-chairman Stephen Friedman to be the new White House economic adviser. Hear more from NPR's Bob Edwards and Cokie Roberts.

NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. Anderson is a "New Yorker" magazine correspondent who wrote about the most revered leader in Afghanistan, known as the "The Lion of Panjshir."