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NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the potential California gubernatorial candidacy of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. With the state's power crisis ebbing away at Gov. Gray Davis' (D) popularity, many Republicans feel The Terminator is the man who can rescue their party. After all, they note, Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Sonny Bono and Clint Eastwood parlayed entertainment careers to political office in California.

Noah Adams speaks with Zoran Kusovac, Balkans correspondent for Jane's Defense Weekly. The army of Macedonia is fighting Albanians rebels in the hills above the town of Tetovo. Kusovac explains the inherent difficulty of defeating an insurgent rebel group -- particularly in this situation. The Macedonian army is an old vestige of the former Yugoslav military and depends on one-year conscripts (some of whom are Albanian) to fight the rebels. Kusovac says this kind of battle requires small, well-armed and trained mobile army units to penetrate guerilla territory.

John discusses the week's news with John Hielmann of Wired Magazine.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Steve Inskeep about today's vote in the Senate on the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr ruminates on his recent trip to Cuba, 40 years after his first visit.

NPR's Guy Raz reports Macedonian security forces ended a 24-hour cease-fire today and launched a new round of attacks against positions held by ethnic Albanian rebels around the city of Tetovo. Soon after the assault began, two Albanian men were shot dead by security forces at a checkpoint. The European Union's Javier Solana was in the capital, Skopje, for the second time this week and expressed hope the crisis will soon be resolved.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Climate Global Change, about President Bush's reversal on tightening carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to prevent global warming. The president sent a letter yesterday to four Republican senators stating that he had decided not to seek reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. This is a reversal of a previous campaign pledge. The decision is a blow to environmentalists and a win for coal and oil industries. Claussen's organizations membership includes 33 major companies.

TUCKER reviews –Catchall— the new release by the band Swag.

Karen Schaeffer of member station WCPN reports that the Ford Motor Company has shut down a Cleveland-area engine plant while officials try to pinpoint the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease that has sickened at least three workers.

Brenda Tremblay of member station WXXI reports that many people in the city of Rochester, New York, are reading the same book. People in supermarkets and malls wear pins that say they're reading, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. Its the story of a young black man wrongly sentenced to death. Rochester's mayor says its allowing residents to talk about race relations in a way they'd usually avoid.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on a bribery scandal that is tearing at India's government. The president of the main governing party has resigned, and the scandal has put in jeopardy the administration's coalition government.

Commentator John Ridley is a self-proclaimed 'tactionist.' He's on a mission to touch interesting people and things, and gather fascinating stories in the process. Next on his 'touch-list:' a nuclear warhead. Unfortunately, the officials at Los Alamos are unimpressed by his unique hobby.