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NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens received a dubious award yesterday. The Republican was given an "oinker award" by the Citizens Against Government Waste, citing the amount of federal pork barrel spending the group says he's brought home to Alaska. But Sen. Stevens didn't shy away from the award. Stevens says he's proud of the federal dollars he's won for his state.

Host Melissa Block talks to NPR's Andy Bowers in Honolulu on the testimony of the captain of a Japanese fishing boat rammed by a Navy submarine. The captain tells of watching waves sweep young passengers off the boat's deck. A military investigation into the accident is under way in Hawaii.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Macedonia on the spreading conflict between ethnic Albanians and government forces.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on rebel groups in Macedonia who are fighting for increased rights for the country's ethnic Albanian population.

Without dental insurance, William Stork has put off getting his rotten tooth pulled; Medicare doesn't cover the $1,000 procedure. Dentists can't agree on whether all seniors should get that benefit.

The United States is one of a handful of countries, and the only wealthy nation, without a national paid leave policy.

Laura Carlson of Colorado Public Radio reports on the controversy over a stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, mounted in Grand Junction's City Hall. A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit to have the tablet removed, on the grounds that it's an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. The city council will decide tonight whether to leave the monument and go to court, or move it.

NPR's Richard Harris looks at the week in science, including a new explanation of why plants have leaves.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Stuart Portnoy from Arlington, Virginia. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WETA and WAMU in Washington, DC.)

Liane talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's past week, ranging from the reversal on his position to regulate carbon dioxide to his steady insistence on a tax cut to his edging away from his plan to have faith-based organizations deliver government services and to his desire to no longer have the American Bar Association review judicial appointments.

In New Mexico, a relative of Billy the Kid asked the Legislature to pardon the legendary outlaw after all these years. The Legislature turned him down. Essayist Kate Nelson agrees with the decision and keeps on rooting for the Kid.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the Amtrak passenger train that jumped the tracks early this morning in a remote area of Iowa. Several cars were knocked on their sides, killing one person and injuring 90.