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United Airlines faces another large debt payment Monday. The struggling airline is trying to persuade the mechanics union to take salary cuts to help stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a company-wide effort to reduce labor costs. Jay Field reports.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review two landmark decisions. One involves a 1978 decision allowing affirmative action in college admissions. The high court will also revisit its 1986 decision upholding state laws that criminalize private, consensual homosexual conduct. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

United Airlines meets with mechanics union officials to try to persuade it them to take salary cuts to stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a companywide effort to reduce labor costs. United faces a Monday deadline for a huge debt payment. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Lawyers for alleged victims of priest sex abuse release the personnel files of eight priests who once worked in the Boston Archdiocese. The documents suggest church officials were aware of the allegations against the priests and allowed them to remain in the ministry. Hear Monica Brady-Myerov of WBUR.

Residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa have filed a lawsuit to force the nearly 30,000 American soldiers stationed there to leave. A spate of violent incidents involving U.S. servicemen has led to heightened tensions on the island. NPR's Eric Weiner reports. (5:30)

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger resigns as head of the presidential commission created to investigate intelligence lapses before the Sept. 11 attacks. Kissinger, a controversial choice from the start, says he doesn't want to provide names of his business clients. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

The U.S. government is urging its citizens in Indonesia to exercise "extreme caution" in public places over the holidays. The warning is prompted by threats from terrorists, such as those believed to have carried out the October bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed nearly 200 people. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

North Korea says it is disabling U.N. surveillance cameras at a nuclear plant that it plans to reopen. Experts say the plutonium plant -- shut down in 1994 by agreement with the United States -- could develop fuel for bombs within months. Hear from NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Eric Weiner.

The FBI continues its search for five men who are believed to have entered the United States illegally from Canada around Christmas Day. Authorities say the men are not linked to terrorism. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

An Iraqi official says a visit by U.N. arms inspectors to one of Saddam Hussein's palaces was unjustified. Meanwhile, some say that if no clear evidence of weapons is found in Iraq, the United States faces a challenge in persuading other governments of the need for military action. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and Tom Gjelten.