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Iran is giving the Hamas-led Palestinian government $50 million in aid. Renee Montagne speaks with reporter Roxana Saberi in Tehran about the donation's importance. They also talk about Iran's resistance to international pressure to stop its nuclear program.

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair says he will leave his post June 27, after 10 years on the job. Times of London columnist Matthew Parris, who served in Parliament as a Tory, discusses Blair's decade in power.

Stephen Beard of Marketplace tells Alex Chadwick about a deal between the European Union and China to unblock about 75 million Chinese textile imports held up at European ports.

President Bush, meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing, pressed his government to expand political and religious freedoms. The president began his day worshipping at a Protestant church -- one of the few state-sanctioned Christian churches in the capital. In response, Hu said China would work to develop human rights.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Los Angeles to protest legislation that would crack down on illegal immigration. The measure has already passed the House of Representatives. The Senate begins debate this week.

A federal appeals court rules that the Environmental Protection Agency acted illegally when it issued new air-pollution rules for power plants and factories. The three-judge panel says the rules allowing plants to modernize without installing pollution-control equipment violated the Clean Air Act.

The former president appears on Talk of the Nation to discuss his presidency, the state of modern politics, and his views on the future. He also takes questions and e-mails from listeners.

This week the Senate is debating whether to pass a bill that would both raise the minimum wage for the first time in almost a decade, and permanently cut the estate tax. It's a compromise that would give both Democrats and Republicans something each side wants. The House has already passed the bill. Don Gonyea talks to David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal.

If the budget allows, the Census Bureau will be out with GPS devices in 2009 to pinpoint every American dwelling. The collected data is confidential, but some private companies might challenge that law.

Federal Reserve plans for a small increase in short-term interest rates mean an end to the four-year period of falling interest rates. With the economy heating up, the Fed wants to keep inflation in hand. If the Fed raises the interest rate from 1 percent to 1.25 percent, it is expected to be the beginning of the end of a period of historically low interest rates. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.