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Marion Winik talks about the woes of adult children dealing with dating parents. The role reversal includes questioning whether mom's date measures-up, and is she practicing safe sex? In the end, though, what we really want for our dating parents is true love -- and we want to be able to go for it.

NPR's David Welna reports on the first day of Senate debate on the latest version of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Although the two senators have introduced the bill six times in the last six years, this is the first time it's been fully debated. (4:16) Check out more NPR News coverage of Power, Money & Influence.

Tonight, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Queen, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Solomon Burke, The Flamingos and Ritchie Valens will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We asked people at Concord Mills Mall in Concord, N.C., for their nominations.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that President Bush was busy yesterday meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Mori, as well as with the White House Energy Taskforce, and a coalition of African-American ministers.

The U.S. Navy was at pains today to explain why it waited several days to release details regarding the presence of civilians on board the attack submarine Greeneville last Friday. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon.

NPR's Eric Weiner tells Linda Wertheimer that the latest information about the accident between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of Hawaii is dominating the news in Japan.

Commentator Sherry Sontag, an investigative journalist and author, argues that if everything had been done by the rules, the submarine would never have hit the Japanese trawler. By holding back the answers to key questions while it investigates, the Navy compounds the impression of incompetence by appearing evasive.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports Americans have been much more reluctant than the Japanese to surf the Web from their cell phones. It's likely to stay that way, as long as Internet access from wireless phones is slower and more costly than from a home computer.

There's new momentum in the struggle to get AIDS drugs to the developing world. Drug companies are offering discounts on AIDS drugs to poor countries. Foreign generic drug makers are copying U.S.-patented AIDS drugs and selling them in the Third World. And studies are showing that even in the poor countries like Haiti, the triple-drug combination of AIDS drugs can slow disease and death.

Women in Baharain voted for the first time this week in a two-day referendum on political reforms. It's the first referendum in that Persian Gulf country since it gained independence from Great Britain in 1971. Linda Werthheimer talks with Howard Schneider, Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post about politics in Bahrain and conclusion of the vote.