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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets tomorrow to consider a plan to ease California's power crisis. The commission may back off from its opposition to electricity price caps by approving temporary caps during power emergencies. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Robert Siegel speaks with Latvian President Vaira Vike Freiberga whose country is facing a language question of its own. For many years, Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union and Russian became an official language. No longer, says the president, who is seeking to make fluency in Latvian a mandatory requirement for citizens. The Latvian leader is in Washington this week for talks with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Among the items on the agenda: possible Latvian membership in NATO.

Robert Siegel talks with Lin Yu-Fang, associate professor of International Studies Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan. They discuss the arms sale from the U.S. to Taiwan, and how it's being received in Taipei.

Sotheby's auction house has 151 items of Chinese propaganda art for sale from the era of Mao Tse-tung. (2:00) Sotheby's Web site.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the slow progress in the Senate over President Bush's education proposals.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports that millionaire and "space tourist" Dennis Tito will be allowed to visit the international space station.

Commentator Daniel Ferri on a teacher's nightmare -- he dreams he is unprepared for class -- unprepared and uncertain until he begins to draw a problem on the board. Long division helps ground him safely back in reality.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham that testimony started today in the trial of Thomas Blanton Jr., who is charged with murder in the civil-rights-era bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four girls died in the blast in 1963.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Bishop John Ricard of The Catholic Conference, which is lobbying the Bush administration to work for peace in Sudan.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that financial officials from around the world are gathering in Washington for meetings this weekend of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The semi-annual meetings will also draw hundreds of anti-globalization protesters. Many of these protesters want the Bank and the Fund to forgive the debts of the world's poorest nations, but the institutions say it would be unwise to speed up the debt relief they are providing.