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A Senate banking committee claims U.S. banks are giving the green light to money laundering by failing toclosely monitor their relationships with overseas financial institutions. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston reports on Roman Totenberg, the 90-year-old concert violinist whose decades in music are now bridging the gap between two very diverse musical periods. A concert tonight in Boston will honor Totenberg on his birthday. (Roman Totenberg is the father of NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg).

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the Justice Department has given a federal prosecutor in New York jurisdiction to investigate all of then-President Clinton's last-minute pardons. Attorney General John Ashcroft has given U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White authority to look into any claims that cash or other benefits were exchanged for pardons.

Journalist Bill Sloan is the author of –I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby! A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact—. Sloan is a former tabloid insider having worked for –The National Enquirer,— Montreals –Midnight— (now called –Globe—), and the –National Tattler.— Sloan was also an investigative reporter for the Dallas Times Herald.

TUCKER reviews –Catchall— the new release by the band Swag.

Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer read from listeners letters. This week subjects include our series on the Oil Century, the Paper Clip Project in Tennessee and the destruction of Buddha statues in Afghanistan. (Please send comments to Letters, ATC, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2001; or by E-mail to atc@npr.org.)

Noah Adams talks to Jo Jones of Ditches Farm at Church Stoke in Montgomery in Wales about the devastating slaughter of her family's 228 pedigree dairy cows this week. Half of their herd of dairy cows came down with foot-and-mouth disease and because the virus is so contagious, all of the cows had to be killed, then burned. Her husband Winston and daughter Lottie are not just suffering economic loss, but more importantly, are emotionally distraught by the loss.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports on how the government is trying to curb the possibility of international passengers carrying foot-and-mouth disease to the United States through Boston's Logan Airport

NPR's Emily Harris reports that President Bush's energy priority is to make the U.S. energy-independent. But environmentalists say that means Mr. Bush will put too much emphasis on increasing supplies, and not enough on conservation.

The Senate is expected to begin debate next week on the latest version of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. This year, the sponsors think they have enough votes to choke off a filibuster. But some of the Democratic-leaning interest groups, such as labor unions, are having second thoughts about new provisions in the legislation this time around. NPR's Peter Overby reports.