Another credit agency is downgrading Illinois after its lawmakers ended their session without addressing the state's $100 billion pension liability crisis. Now, Gov. Pat Quinn is calling the General Assembly back into session.

There's significance behind the choice of California as the venue for the U.S.-China summit between presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. The state is home to more than a third of the China-born population in the U.S., and Chinese-backed investment groups have been pouring billions of dollars into real estate property and private companies based in California. At the same time, exports of California goods to China are surging, and state leaders are bullish about capitalizing on new markets there.

Sen. John McCain, just back from a quick foray to rebel-held territory in Syria, is pushing the Obama administration to do more to help rebels topple Bashar Assad's regime. His call comes as rebels lose ground in their fight, and as skepticism rises about the U.S.-Russian plans for a peace conference.

The government's monthly jobs report comes out Friday morning. Economists estimate that employers added about 170,000 jobs in May. For a preview of the report, Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Yuki Noguchi.

The Pentagon recently released a report directly accusing China of using cyberweapons to gain a military advantage with the U.S. The scope of the problem, and the damage done by cyber-espionage, is not clear. But the issue will be on the agenda when President Obama meets China's new president, Xi Jinping, in California on Friday.

Senator John McCain, just back from a quick foray to rebel held territory in Syria, is pushing the Obama administration to do more to help rebels topple Bashar Assad's regime. His call comes as rebels lose ground in their fight, and as skepticism rises about the U.S.-Russian plans for a peace conference. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

The new movie, "The Internship," opens Friday and tells the story of two 40-year-old, down-on their-luck watch salesmen land an unlikely summer internship at Google, were they have to compete for a full-time gig. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star in it. NPR's Steve Henn sat through a screening with real life Google interns.

Few issues rank as high on the Obama administration's China agenda as the problem of cyber espionage. The Pentagon recently released a report directly accusing China of using cyberweapons to gain a military advantage with the United States. The scope of the problem and the damage done by cyber espionage is not clear. But the issue will be on the agenda when President Obama meets China's new president Xi Jinping in California on Friday.

Linda Wertheimer introduces listeners to Andrea Swensson of Minnesota Public Radio, and her pick for June's installment of Heavy Rotation, Har Mar Superstar's "Lady, You Shot Me."

News reports have been revealing massive data mining by the National Security Agency of American Internet and social media companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google. It was also reported that the agency is collecting Verizon phone records of millions of U.S. citizens. For more on the story, Renee Montagne talks to Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who co-wrote the stories for the British newspaper "The Guardian."

Another credit agency is downgrading Illinois after its lawmakers ended their session without addressing the state's $100 billion pension liability crisis. Now, Gov. Pat Quinn is calling the General Assembly back into session. NPR's David Schaper reports.

There's significance behind the choice of California as the venue for the U.S.-China summit between presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. The state is home to more than a third of the China-born population in the U.S., and Chinese-backed investment groups have been pouring billions of dollars into real estate property and private companies based in California. But at the same time, exports of California goods to China are surging, and state leaders are bullish about capitalizing on new markets there. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports.

Renee Montagne has the Last Word in business.

Over the past two days, there have been revelations about the way the National Security Agency is gathering information for intelligence. While details of both programs are still coming out, the data collection practice appears to be legal. But it could be the beginning of something new in the intelligence community: The use of data to find patterns analysts might have missed.

The revelations this week of surveillance of phone traffic by the NSA is the latest episode in the history of America's most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The FISC was created to address surveillance abuses revealed in the 1970's. Now, civil liberties groups are complaining that the court is not providing enough protection against unwarranted surveillance. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Coca-Cola is returning to Myanmar after 60 years. They'd been kept out of the country by international sanctions. This week they officially opened their new plant outside of Yangon.

Coca-Cola is returning to Myanmar after 60 years. They'd been kept out of the country by international sanctions. This week they officially opened their new plant outside of Yangon.

Among the many reasons for ongoing riots in Turkey: A recent law restricting the advertising and sale of alcohol. Secular Turks see the new rules as the latest effort by the ruling AK Party to impose religious values on the population.

With its upcoming decisions on same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court faces the same question that Margaret Marshall faced a decade ago as Massachusetts' chief justice. Marshall says she had little idea that the decision she wrote legalizing gay marriage would be groundbreaking.

As part of NPR's series on crime in Latin America, we're looking at Brazil's efforts to occupy and clean up Rio's crime-ridden favelas, or shantytowns, before the World Cup and the Olympics. But as a consequence, criminals have dispersed to outlying areas where there are fewer resources.