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While President Biden has been working with world leaders on the pressing issue of climate change, his domestic plans for more funding still face holdouts.

Rittenhouse's lawyers say he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two men and wounded a third at a protest in Kenosha, Wis., last August. Prosecutors say he was acting recklessly.

Democrats agreed to a significant — but slimmed down — proposal to help lower prescription drug prices, bringing aboard notable holdouts on the measure, including Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Military leaders in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been holding direct talks with democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee). In 1990, Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won elections overwhelmingly, but the military government wouldn't allow the party to govern, and has kept Suu Kyi under house arrest. Noah talks with Bertil Lintner, Correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and author of Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948. Lintner says these talks are not unprecedented, and that they are usually for show for the outside world. Suu Kyi remains under house arrest and her travel restrictions have not been loosened at all. (4:30)Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948, by Bertil Lintner is published by Silkworm books, 2000.

Joel Quenneville has quit as coach of the Florida hockey team following a report about the handling of sexual assault accusations from a player for the Blackhawks during Quenneville's tenure there.

South Korea is seeking a degree of normalcy by gradually easing restrictions. "We have to find a way to safely coexist with COVID-19 even if that means taking some risks," an official said.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House that German Chancellor Schroeder is expected to question President Bush today on his decision to back away from the global warming treaty. Germany and other U.S. allies in Europe support the Kyoto Treaty, which the United States hasn't ratified.

The behavior of the Braves' fans is scrutinized as the World Series goes to Atlanta, and fallout continues in the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault case.

President Bush, speaking on March 29th, explains why he decided the United States should not ratify the 1997 Kyoto treaty on Global Warming. Host Bob Edwards discusses the Global Warming Treaty with David Victory, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and author of the book, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., who chairs the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.

President Biden outlined a framework that he said would win support from all 50 Senate Democrats and pass the House. But it's unclear whether that is true.

November is looking crowded with some highly anticipated books. Here are a handful we are excited to read.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a White House announcement that President Bush will not implement the climate treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan. Democratic leaders in Congress and environmental groups promised to fight Mr. Bush on the Kyoto climate treaty and other recent policy reversals they call setbacks to the environment.

Robert Siegel talks to Margo Wallstrom, the European Commission's top environmental official, about her visit to Washington today, and her discussion with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Wallstrom conveyed strong European concerns about the decision by the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports that European environmental officials have not persuaded the Bush administration to change its position on the Kyoto agreement. EPA Director Christine Whitman told a European delegation yesterday that President Bush is sticking with his decision to withdraw support for the agreement, because it would be too costly and is unfair to the U.S.

Japan heads to the polls soon, and the ruling party is counting on low turnout from apathetic young voters and independents in order to hang onto its parliamentary majority.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., about the ongoing talks over President Biden's domestic spending plan.

President Bush ruffled lots of feathers weeks ago by backing away from the Kyoto global warming treat and delaying rules limiting arsenic in drinking water. NPR's John Nielsen reports that Mr. Bush's 2001 federal budget contains a quieter but no less pointed attack on Clinton environmental policies.

President Biden unveiled a slimmed down spending framework to House Democrats. He discussed the transformative nature of the package, but some major priorities Democrats hoped to include were dropped.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Roger Adams, pardon attorney at the Justice Department, on the pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green; Captain Tom Kyle, deputy chief of staff of the US Pacific Fleet, on the collision of the USS Greeneville with a Japanese fishing trawler; Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan before the Senate Banking Committee; William H. Gates, Sr. and Representative Jennifer Dunn (Republican, Washington) on the possible elimination of the estate tax; Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, of the US Marine Corps, on Friday's air attack of Iraqi defense installations; and President George W. Bush during his visit to the ranch of Mexican President Vicente Fox.