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NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the final negotiations in the Senate on the campaign finance reform bill. Senators are pushing toward a final vote on the entire bill tonight, but it's not clear whether they'll have time.

At least two people -- including an AP television producer -- were killed today when fighting between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas spilled over the border into Kosovo. NPR's Guy Raz reports from Skopje, the Macedonian capital.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on vocal -- and organized -- groups of suburban parents who in some states are mobilizing against calls for more standardized testing of students.

Efforts to make crossing streets safer for the seeing-impaired in Baltimore, Maryland have upset some advocates for the blind. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Scott talks with Bill Adams, the director of St. Augustine Florida's Department of Historic Preservation. King Juan Carlos and Queen Isabella of Spain will be paying a visit to St. Augustine on April 1st. St. Augustine is oldest city in the U.S. and the only one to consider Spain its mother country.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott returns from a safari in Africa, and tells about it.

President Bush is pushing for annual testing for public school students from third to eighth grade. But parents, teachers, state education officials and testers are opposed. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Despite President Bush's decision earlier this week not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, some European countries say they still plan to support the agreement. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports.

In the first of an occasional series, host Lisa Simeone and word guru Richard Lederer disect the language pet peeves of, like, listeners.