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The Bush administration proposes a plan that would use the gambling winnings of deadbeat parents to make up for unpaid child support. Under the plan, jackpot or ticket winners would be checked against a national database of deadbeat parents. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Ivory Coast political parties and rebel groups begin talks near Paris to try to end the country's four-month civil war. Delegates say they are confident they will reach a solution, despite President Laurent Gbagbo's absence from the meeting. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.

Commentator Russell Roberts say before liberals dismiss the President's plan to end tax on investment dividends as a windfall for the rich, they should consider who else proposed the idea: President Jimmy Carter. Roberts' commentary is the second in a series of occasional commentaries on the Bush economic plan.

Commentator Alison apRoberts says her belief in the shared sacrifice of the military draft doesn't make the recruitment brochures mailed to her teenage son any easier to stomach.

NPR's David Welna reports Senate business is stalled from the push and pull between Republicans who have the majority and Democrats who still control all Senate Committees.

General Electric workers continue the second day of a strike to protest an increase in health-care costs. Rates for GE employees rose almost 50 percent in the last two years -- an additional $200 per year, on average. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University.

Guest host John Ydstie talks with Jeffrey Lehman, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and Cornell's president-elect, about the affirmative action policies of the law school at Michigan.

A juvenile court judge in Fairfax County, Va., rules that Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspect Lee Malvo, 17, can be tried as an adult for the murder of an FBI analyst. He and another suspect are implicated in 12 other fatal shootings. The ruling makes Malvo eligible for the death penalty. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The California Supreme Court adopts tougher standards on what constitutes forcible rape, defining it as continued sexual intercourse by a man after his female partner withdraws initial consent. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

John Dankosky of member station WNPR reports the little city of Willimantic, Conn,, is dealing with a big heroin problem. After a newspaper dubbed Willimantic "heroin town," officials are scrambling to clean up the community's drug problem as well as its tattered image. But they're at odds over whether recovery clinics will help locals kick their addictions or draw even more addicts to town.