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Shipping companies and dockworkers on the West Coast reach an agreement on a six-year labor contract. If ratified, it would end a bitter dispute. A union vote is expected after Thanksgiving. Carrie Kahn reports.

Iraq's foreign minister writes a letter to the United Nations complaining about the Security Council's resolution on disarmament, calling it a pretext for the United States to wage war on Iraq. NPR News reports.

It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries.

Over the past five years, Maverick Construction founder Michael McNally has seen revenues grow tenfold and even in the current economic slump, sales are up about 20 percent over last year. Still, McNally is feeling cautious about the future -- and he's not alone. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

The use of hand signaling in baseball goes back to the 1890s when a deaf ball player's coach started using hand signals to let the player know if the previous pitch was a strike or a ball -- maybe. Steve is joined by Josh Prager, senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal, to talk about the history of signing in America's pastime, and the questions that still surround its origin. Prager is currently writing a book about sign stealing in 1951 and the "Shot Heard Round the World."

Supply and labor shortages, and a backlog of work already underway, are to blame, the company says. But it will complete purchases that are already under contract in its program to flip properties.

Essayist Andy Borowitz has a few things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS); Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix; Palestinian spokesman Yasser Abed Rabbo; Israeli spokesman Rannan Gissin; National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson, and President George W. Bush.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Charles Kupchan, professor of international relations at Georgetown University. In a new book and series of articles, he recently outlined the possible rise to power of the European Union as a challenge to American geopolitical dominance. His book is The End of an American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

The Bush Administration considers whether to raise fuel-efficiency standards for sport utility vehicles. So far, the administration seems to be leaning toward market-based solutions. Quinn Klinefelter reports.