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This weekend, Napster, the on-line music swapping service says it will filter up to 1 million music files, before a court injunction orders the service to do so. From Seattle, NPR's Robert Smith visits with students at the University of Washington, where several are downloading as many files as they can before the filters are in place.

The Senate confirms Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, 60-36. The vote was mostly along party lines, with nearly every Democrat voting no. Several lawmakers criticized his policies on interrogating detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Martha Stewart has completed her five-month sentence for lying to federal prosecutors about a stock sale. Though she still faces five more months of restricted travel, Stewart's release will allow her to focus on her two new TV shows and a new line of furniture.

With its 27 electoral votes, Florida is the grand prize in this year's presidential election. NPR's Ari Shapiro examines Florida's political mood by comparing it to a literary drama. The story line is complete with revenge, tragedy, nepotism and suspicion. As Election Day nears, the stage seems set for a climactic resolution.

Bipolar disorder is one of the fastest growing diagnoses among American children. But one of the institutions on the front lines of dealing with bipolar -- the public school system -- may be ill-equipped for its role in identifying and educating children who may have the disorder.

Our commentator says that having one's own fashion line seems to be de rigeur for celebrities lately. But he doesn't plan to buy from any celebrities-turned-garment moguls anytime soon. Rosecrans Baldwin is co-editor and publisher of the MorningNews.org.

He's the one who pushes to the head of the line because he's got first-class tickets --- and a first-class attitude that's all about himself. Don't look now, it's the "Insufferably Bad Passenger." Commentator Baxter Black has this tale on an easy-to-spot irritant of modern travel.

Everyone who's ever rigged a line seems to have a few fish stories (or dozens). In the last installment of Morning Edition's summer series on fishing in America, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold strings together the best of the accounts for one colossal fish tale.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines, has approved the re-nomination of two judges. The vote sets the stage for a showdown in the Senate over whether Democrats have the right to block some of President Bush's judicial nominees with filibusters.

For the third year in a row, the number of Americans living below the poverty line rose last year, growing by 1.3 million people, the Census Bureau reports. More Americans are also going without health insurance. Hear NPR's Kathleen Schalch.