Kosovo update: 1) The United States is offering $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic. The offer also applies to other alleged Yugoslav war criminals. The hopeful spin: It will put teeth in the U.N. criminal tribunal's indictment. 2) Serb army reservists blocked roads and pledged not to move until they are paid. They have not collected their $5-a-day wages since April. 3) Violence continues. Ethnic Albanians torched Serb homes, and gunmen fired on U.S. and French troops. 4) The post-conflict post-mortem continues. The New York Times quotes Richard Holbrooke's defense of his negotiations with Milosevic ("My job was not to make moral judgments"). (Read William Saletan's " Frame Game" in Slate on why the war's outcome should leave pundits blushing.)

Physicians will unionize against managed care. The American Medical Association voted to form a union to negotiate for better wages and working conditions but promised never to strike. Spins: 1) Collective bargaining will win doctors more control over the type and quantity of medication they prescribe, resulting in better care for patients. 2) Collective bargaining will win doctors higher pay, resulting in higher costs for patients.

The Supreme Court barred lawsuits against states for violating federal laws. Individual plaintiffs will no longer be able to sue states that violate federal laws; only the federal government may do so. Observers called this a coup for the court's Reagan- and Bush-appointed states' rights faction. Liberals protested that the ruling emasculates Congress' power to bind states to federal law. Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky opines in the Los Angeles Times that the decision is "the height of conservative judicial activism" because it "invented new rights for state governments at the expense of individuals."

The Supreme Court restricted its definition of physical disability. The court ruled that people whose impairments can be corrected (with medicine, eyeglasses, or the like) aren't eligible for protection from job discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Employers were relieved. Advocates for the disabled fumed at "the absurd result of a person being disabled enough to be fired from a job, but not disabled enough to challenge the firing." The Washington Post predicts that the decision will spark a legal fight over the definition of correctability and urges Congress to revise the ADA's ambiguities.

The Microsoft trial ended after eight months of testimony. A ruling is expected in late autumn. Early verdicts from the press: 1) The ruling will tame Microsoft and hearten its competitors. 2) The trial itself has already tamed Microsoft and heartened its competitors. Read Dahlia Lithwick's "Dispatches" in Slate for the play-by-play.

Kenneth Starr named Hillary Clinton as a potential witness in Webster Hubbell's trial. Hubbell is charged with covering up his and Mrs. Clinton's legal work on a crooked Arkansas land deal. The trial, scheduled to begin Aug. 9, is expected to coincide with her announcement of her Senate candidacy.

Sen. Orrin Hatch says he will run for president. The Utah Republican emphasized his middle-of-the-road politics, working-class roots, and low expectations of success. He told the Washington Post that he's running because "if something happens to George W. Bush, I don't know if we would have an alternative who could beat Al Gore."

Florida's new school voucher plan is being challenged in court. Opponents of the first-in-the-nation plan--which subsidizes private or parochial school tuition for kids in "failing" public schools who choose to transfer--contend that it violates church-state boundaries. A win could jeopardize nascent voucher programs in other states, as well as the millions of dollars Florida already spends on private, church-linked charities.

Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents. Columba Bush, wife of the Florida governor, declared only $500 worth of goods upon her return from a Paris vacation, but agents found $19,000 in receipts in her passport and fined her $4,100 on the spot. The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry. Politicos and analysts told the New York Times that the gaffe won't hurt Jeb or his brother, George W.

The Senate defeated a plan to restrict U.S. steel imports. The steel industry had lobbied ardently for the bill, claiming that imports are sapping business and eating jobs. The Clinton administration, most of the Senate, and a slew of economists opposed the bill, agreeing that it would invite protectionist retaliation from other countries. The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman concurs that steel jobs are being lost because of increased productivity: "a lot of workers simply aren't needed anymore, and no amount of xenophobia will alter that."