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Steve Inskeep talks with former President Bill Clinton about his foundation's work to lower the cost of AIDS treatments in developing countries. Thursday, the Clinton Foundation announced it had negotiated cheaper long-term drugs and faster AIDS tests.

President Bush flies to New Mexico to sign the energy bill Congress just passed after more than four years of debate. The bill is 1,725 pages, and it includes a number of projects intended to please individual congressional districts.

Iraq's interim government unveils new security laws aimed at curbing the country's deadly insurgency. The new powers would allow the interim government to impose emergency rule in trouble spots. On the same day the new measures were announced, insurgents battled U.S. troops in the heart of Baghdad. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Nearly 100 paramilitary commanders in Colombia are expected to receive partial amnesty under new legislation aimed at ending the country's civil war. Supporters call the move a step towards peace for a nation battered by 40 years of fighting. Critics say the law is too lenient on paramilitary leaders who committed atrocities. Producer Brian Ellsworth reports.

The Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up hearings on the nomination of Judge John Roberts to be U.S. chief justice. Thursday, the committee worked into the night to hear 30 witnesses evenly divided between Roberts supporters and doubters.

The alleged mistreatment of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay sets off a heated Senate debate. Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, compared a description of mistreatment -- submitted to a Pentagon investigator by an F-B-I agent -- to actions carried out by Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Some Republicans accused Durbin of maligning American military personnel.

Melissa Block talks with Dejan Anastasijevic, a senior journalist with Vreme Magazine. Anastasijevic talks about the broadcast of video showing Serbian soldiers executing civilians in Srebrenica.

After fatal March shootings at Minnesota's Red Lake High School, most students did not return to class for the rest of the school year. As a new term begins, school officials address security concerns.

The Base Closure and Realignment Commission this week will hold its first public hearing (in Rapid City, S.D.) since releasing its base closure list. Communities and congressional members that are facing changes are preparing to make their cases.

Floridians return to their homes on the northern Gulf Coast to survey the wreckage of Hurricane Dennis. Five people were killed in Florida and Georgia. The storm caused more than $2 billion in insured damage. Forecasters say Dennis, which is now a tropical depression, can still generate flooding and tornadoes.