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Linda talks with NPR's John Ydstie about new figures showing that the federal budget deficit will come in at $107 billion dollars for fiscal 1996. That's the lowest budget deficit in fifteen years...and the fourth consecutive year of decline.

Voters in Virgina will have to pay special attention when they enter the voting booth in November to cast ballots for the U.S. Senate. Long time incumbant Republican John Warner is being challenged by Democrat Mark Warner. A report on the battling Warners by Adam Hockberg.

Jacki talks with John Mahr, the crime reporter for the Irish Times of Dublin. Mahr notes Dublin is experiencing a rise in heroin use and that many residents, unhappy with what they consider the police's inadaquate response, have turned to vigilante action to drive drug dealers from the city.

Reporter Nick Thorpe describes Pannonhalma Abbey in western Hungary. The Benedictine Abbey marks its millennium this year. Pope John Paul II visited Budapest to commemorate the occasion.

In this music parody game, lyrics were added to some of John Williams' most famous movie themes, making them about other famous people with the last name Williams.

A remembrance for jazz pianist Mal Waldron, who has died at the age of 77. Waldron accompanied Billie Holiday in the 1950s, and played in bands with great artists like Charlie Mingus and John Coltrane.

Michele Norris speaks with Columbia University Law Prof. John Coffee about today's settlement and it's implications for Wall St. firms and individual investors.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the Senate Judiciary Committee's final disposition of the John Ashcroft nomination to be Attorney General. Today President Bush protested the delay in approving Ashcroft, who has come under fire from civil rights, gun-control and feminist organizations.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews a whimsical horror story based on the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, directed by F.W. Murnau. Shadow of the Vampire, is directed by E. Elias Merhige and stars John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

In the biggest land conservation act in decades, president Clinton has this afternoon approved an order putting nearly a third of the national forest land permanently off limits to road building and logging. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the third day of confirmation hearings for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft. A black judge whose nomination to the federal bench was blocked by Ashcroft testified today. Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White testified that Ashcroft had distorted White's record as pro-criminal.

NPR's Rick Karr reports that the internet is at the center of the campaign against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General. The question is how effective are e-mail and activist web sites at attracting and engaging citizens and what impact do the efforts have on Capitol Hill?

For the first time "Snowrollers" have been documented in Kansas. They are naturally occurring balls of snow that are usually only found in the Arctic and Antarctic. Noah talks with John Stannard, who works for Russem County and was the first to spot the snowroller. Pictures of the Snowroller can be found at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the fallout from the failed global warming meetings last week in the Hague. Delegates from the developed world failed to agree on how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases that exacerbate global warming. Now there are moves to try again.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on new research that warns of potential trouble aboard ships' ballasts. Alien organisms like zebra mussels have spread worldwide via the holds of tankers and freighters. Now there's concern that ballasts could harbor microscopic disease organisms as well.

Scientists are heading to Antarctica to investigate a pressing question raised by the British Royal Airforce. When aircraft fly overhead, do penguins fall over? Robert speaks with Dr. John Shears, the environmental officer for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England.

Both the Bush and Gore campaign staffers are keeping in touch with voters across the country, while the dispute for the presidency continues. NPR's John Burnett takes us behind the scenes in Austin, Texas with Bush supporters.

John Burnett reports that while George W. Bush adviser James Baker says counting ballots by hand is inherently subjective, Texas has had several state races recounted by hand under a law signed in 1997 by Governor Bush.

British writer James Buchanan, whose grandfather, John Buchanan, wrote the classic thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps, has a new book just out titled, The Persian Bride. Alan Cheuse has a review.

NPR's John Ydstie talks with Phil Reed, senior consumer editor at Edmunds.com, to find out how to get the best deal when buying a car.