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Commentator Joe Davidson discusses a Texas court case that may redefine the limits of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Davidson says that poor wording leaves the 2nd Amendment open to misinterpretation. He says the amendment really applies to citizen militias, ie, the National Guard, not to individual gun owners.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that an Air France Concorde carrying German tourists to New York for a Caribbean cruise crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff yesterday. At least 113 people died in the crash.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from the Republican presidential campaign trail in Wyoming, where Texas Governor George W. Bush's vice-presidential choice, Dick Cheney, is already deflecting attacks from democrats. They point to Cheney's congressional voting record as evidence that he's a hard-line conservative.

NPR's Brian Naylor looks at what remains for Congress to do before it leaves for the August break. Topping the list are most of next year's spending bills, yet to pass both houses -- and President Clinton is threatening vetos unless more funding is allocated to the top programs on his agenda.

Robert and Linda take note of the anniversary of President Harry Truman's executive order directing that all members of the U.S. military be treated equally.

Commentator Frank Deford says he's ready to give up on baseball. He says the major leagues are littered with problems no one's going to solve any time soon.

Two participants of a training and planning session for demonstrations at next month's Democratic National Convention tell us about their experience. Lester and Summer are teenagers who attended the Youth Organizing Communities protest camp and attended workshops on imperialism, street theatre and politics. We hear their audio diary produced by Youth Radio.

He's got sex appeal, Latino heritage, and his family hopes that will translate into political pizazz among Latinos and the young. NPR's Phillip Davis reports George P. Bush, the 20-something son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-American wife, is going on tour on behalf of George W.

For some insight into how the Arab world is responding to results of the Camp David talks, Robert talks with Hisham Melhem, Senior Correspondent for As-Safir, the major daily newspaper of Beirut and Washington correspondent for Radio Montecarlo, a French and Arab language broadcast service to the Middle East.

As part of The Changing Face of America series, NPR's John Nielsen reports from Albuquerque on the real estate development formula that drives the creation of regional shopping malls and suburban sprawl across the country. Nielsen talks to Chris Leinberger, an expert on 'the science of sprawl,' who says that sprawl is planned, not random or haphazard.