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Commentator Kevin Kling discovered a family secret, the day he was struck by lightning.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether laws limiting campaign spending by political parties violates the First Amendment. If the justices were to rule in favor of unlimited spending by parties, it would in effect eliminate limits for individual candidates, most of whom run with the support of a party. NPR's Nina Totenberg takes a look at today's arguments.

NPR's Eric Weiner looks at how the cease-fire between the Israeli's and Hezbollah might now effect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Trent O'Keefe reports from Australia on the massacre of at least 34 people on the island of Tasmania. The gunman began his killing spree at a popular tourist site. He continued shooting at a local pub before taking three hostages to a cottage. Police arrested the man after he set the cottage and himself on fire. Two bodies were found in the rubble. Police have yet to find the third hostage.

President Clinton announced Sunday that the United States would be expanding cooperation with Israeli on missile defense. He said that the U-S would promise to provide more intelligence warnings of enemy launches and to step up development of a new laser weapon to shoot down Katyusha rockets. Robert Siegel talks with John Donnelly, who is a reporter for Defense Weekly and has been covering the laser program. Donnelly explains that the program is still being tested but Israel hopes that it will aid in the destruction of the artillery rockerts used by Hezbollah against targets in Northern Israel.

Robert talks to David Armstrong, a reporter for the Boston Globe, about how the Massachusetts Department of Social Services has been allowing convicted criminals to become foter parents. Armstrong has reported that convicted rapists, spouse abusers, and robbers have been approved as foster parents. Today, the department said that it will no longer allow waivers for convicted criminals to take in foster children.

Commentator David Crystal examines the use of "baby-talk" in the English language.

There was a summit in Washington this week to discuss the politics of meaning, a new political movement offering progressives/liberals a way to 'reclaim' the family values issue which has been monopolized by the right. They held a Summit on Ethics and Meaning and proposed a "Covenant with American Families", their answer to the Christian Coalition's Contract with American Families. Lynn Neary reports.

Psychiatrist JAMES GILLIGAN. He's spent twenty-five years treating violent men, as former medical director of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, and director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system. In his new book "Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes" (Grosset/Putnam) GILLIGAN puts forth his views on violence: that it is possible to eliminate most of the violence that plagues us, and that violence in America is "the result of our collective 'moral choice' to maintain the social policies" that contribute to violence. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE