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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from The Netherlands that the defense began its summation today in the trial of two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The defense attorneys had called only eight witnesses in the course of the eight-month trial in a special Scottish court, convened at Camp Zeist. In his closing argument, lawyer William Taylor tried to poke holes in the prosecution's case, saying the Crown had failed to prove his client Abdel Ali al-Megrahi was a Libyan agent who was working in concert with the co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The attorney again tried to shift the blame to a Palestinian group. Two hundred seventy people died in the 1988 bombing.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from the Netherlands on the trial for two Libyans charged in the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Derby Pie is a Louisville specialty that's being threatened by others making a claim on it.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a lawsuit filed by the state of Utah alleging that the Census Bureau failed to count 14-thousand of its citizens last year, robbing the state of a congressional seat.

Commentator Austin Bay talks about Midland, Texas, the town that shaped a president.

Military leaders in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been holding direct talks with democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee). In 1990, Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won elections overwhelmingly, but the military government wouldn't allow the party to govern, and has kept Suu Kyi under house arrest. Noah talks with Bertil Lintner, Correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and author of Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948. Lintner says these talks are not unprecedented, and that they are usually for show for the outside world. Suu Kyi remains under house arrest and her travel restrictions have not been loosened at all. (4:30)Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948, by Bertil Lintner is published by Silkworm books, 2000.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports Palestinians in the West Bank town of Nablus are in no mood to compromise in the search for a peace settlement with Israel. They have rejected President Clinton's proposals and are vowing to continue their uprising to end Israeli occupation. They're also warning Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority not to defy the will of the people.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Chavez implosion is another example of a cover-up gone awry.

Noah talks with John Eldridge, who covers nuclear, biological and chemical weapons for Jane's Defense Weekly, about the kinds of weapons that use depleted uranium, and why it's preferred over other materials.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Adrian Ma of the The Indicator from Planet Money podcast about the "billionaire tax" being proposed by Democrats to help fund the Build Back Better legislation.