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Host Bob Edwards talks with Lenny Savino, a reporter and former police officer, about a Drug Enforcement Agency operation last fall that the Agency touted as a "major takedown" against Caribbean and Latin American drug traffickers. There are many questions, however, about the accuracy of the DEA's account of the operation's success.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on racial disparities between African-Americans and whites when it comes to kidney transplants. A new study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that overuse of transplants in whites, coupled with socioeconomic factors among blacks accounts for the transplant gap. Providing a better social infrastructure for low-income blacks would eliminate much of the disparity.

In an elaborate ceremony, Airbus debuts the A380 jet in Toulouse, France. The super jumbo jet can hold up to 800 passengers and airports need altering to account for its size. Michele Norris talks with BBC reporter Tom Simons.

David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, talks about trends in health care spending. A new study published in the journal Health Affairs shows that the government will account for half of all health care spending within a decade.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting starts today in Dallas. Bishops will set new sex abuse guidelines and decide what to do about past cover-ups. Meanwhile, Catholics across the country are wondering how the Bishops Conference will stop church sexual abuse and make their bishops more accountable. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

Everyone who's ever rigged a line seems to have a few fish stories (or dozens). In the last installment of Morning Edition's summer series on fishing in America, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold strings together the best of the accounts for one colossal fish tale.

The strategy for rebuilding Iraq must now take into account the increasingly sophisticated and organized attacks on Americans -- and Iraqis who cooperate with them. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Major General Robert Scales Ret., military consultant to NPR, and Michael Vickers, director of Strategic Studies, at the Center for Stratetgic and Budgetary Assessments.

Alex Gibney talks about his new documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which opens Friday in Houston and New York. The film features insider accounts and rare corporate tapes from one of America's largest corporations.

Jon Corzine, the former governor and senator from New Jersey, has resigned from his post as head of MF Global. The company has been under scrutiny from regulators and investigators following its rapid decline and bankruptcy filing earlier this week.

Criminals around the world are discovering tools that let them spy on hundreds of thousands of people over the Internet. And they're stealing credit card numbers, bank account passwords, and other sensitive information in much greater numbers. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.