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Host Bob Edwards talks with David Field, USA Today airline reporter, on the Bush administration's plans to cut $368 million from the Federal Aviation Administration's budget for the next fiscal year -- in a time of high stress for airports, airlines, and passengers.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports China is threatening to ban the practice of Falun Gong in Hong Kong, saying the former British colony is being used as a base for anti-Chinese activities.

NPR asked reporters in Dallas, Chicago and Boston talk to voters about what they think of the tax cut plan that President Bush sent to Congress today. Wade Goodwyn found a lot of support for the plan at the upscale North Park Mall in Dallas. NPR's Mary Ann Akers found mixed reviews of the tax plan at a state office building in Chicago. NPR's' Anthony Brooks visited Boston's financial district. He found support for the tax cut among people in the financial services business. But more average voters wondered whether the money would be better spent on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

NPR's John Nielsen has talked with researchers who went into the north woods and threw wolf dung at moose, and reports that moose can't distinguish it from shinola. That's bad because the scent of wolf should scare moose away. With wolves being reintroduced into the wild, moose had better learn. The researchers are happy to report that, eventually, they do. They're not stupid, just forgetful.

Noah Adams talks with horse and cattle veterinarian Dr. Luther Mc Connell. Dr. Mc Connell is currently rehabilitating a baby moose who was found along side the body of his dead mother near the town of Dusty, Washington.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the word literacy.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Doctors without Borders aid worker Kenny Gluck spoke to reporters today after his kidnapping last month in Chechnya. Gluck was freed over the weekend, after 25 days in captivity.

President Biden has been scrambling to make a deal at home with lawmakers in his own party before heading to the G-20 summit in Rome and the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow.

On the Argentine singer's new album, she's reached a zen place where the very texture of a tone becomes its own language.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jeremy Roebuck about the latest in the jury selection for the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to reporter Dexter Filkins, about his profile of Defense Secretary James Mattis in the latest issue of The New Yorker. The article comes as President Trump is calling for a $54 billion increase in defense spending, and it follows the administration's recent military actions in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan.

NPR's Technology Correspondent Larry Abramson reports on robots from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.