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This week, presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush visited Wisconsin to rally swing voters as well as party loyalists. Although it only offers 11 electoral votes, the state is considered fertile ground for both parties. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold.

Democrat Al Gore held a old-fashioned political rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin today. Won by Democrats in each of the last three presidential elections, the state is being hotly contested by Republican George Bush as Green Party nominee Ralph Nader siphons liberal votes away from the Democratic Party. NPR's Anthony Brooks is with the Gore campaign.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Israeli Prime-Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's efforts to build a national unity government. Sharon's Likud party holds only 19 out of 120 seats in the Israeli Parliament, and many Israelis say that Sharon must include the defeated Labor party in his government in order to accomplish anything.

The Dutch parliament agrees to send 1,100 soldiers to an Iraqi province. The Green and Socialist parties oppose the deployment, as did a part of the Labor party, which said the war in Iraq is still ongoing and the Netherlands should stay out of it. Gregory Crouch reports.

With Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole back on Capitol Hill, Republicans tried today to show a united front on their legislative agenda as they look towards the November presidential elections. The party wants to show that it can deliver on its promises and that it is a good alternative to those who might be attracted to Ross Perot's Reform Party.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo about the ongoing campaign in Bosnia for the national elections, now less than two weeks away. Those elections are set for September 14th and the nationalist ruling parties are in the lead. That large lead is not deterring a coalition of opposition parties whose aim is to break the nationalist hold on politics.

Chris Nuttall (NUT-uhl) reports from Turkey on the eve of a debate in the Turkish Parliament that could bring down the first Islamist-led government in the country's history. The secular politicians, media and military have been striking back at moves taken in recent weeks by the Islamist Welfare Party. The Welfare party wants to re-introduce religion into the affiars of state.

Robert talks to Azmi Bishara, a member of the Israeli parliament representing the Balad Party, an Arab National Liberal party, about an attack on his home in Nazareth by a Jewish mob on Saturday night. He says that after Israeli Arabs turned to the Israeli police for help, a confrontation with the police ensued, resulting in the death of two young Arabs.

James Murray reports from Toronto on Stockwell Day, the new leader of the right-wing Canadian Alliance party.With his talk about tax cuts and smaller government, he's the biggest threat to the centrist governing Liberal Party. But his fundamentalist Christian beliefs are causing a stir.

NPR's Nick Spicer in Baghdad reports on the growing number of murders of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. The U.S. civil administration in Iraq has banned Baathists from key government posts. Many party members are in hiding or have fled into exile amid a campaign of revenge killings in the streets of the capital.