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Born over the weekend, the baby girl weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and is fourth in line for the British throne.

Satellite company DirectTV recently introduced DogTV to its line up. The channel, just for canines, will cost humans $5.99 a month. The programs feature soothing music and animations.

The computer maker's chairman Ray Lane has stepped down as executive chairman. He's been on thin ice with shareholders after his role in acquiring a business software company ended up hurting HP's bottom line.

Today is the day groups planning to protest at the Republican National Convention this summer can get their protest permits, and some have had representatives waiting in line since 4 a.m. Monday. Groups are vying for 55-minute time slots during the convention to protest at a site near the convention hall. However, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today it would file a suit, arguing that the site is not close enough. Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS reports.

GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole today criticized Clinton administration policies toward Russia and Bosnia in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Dole said Clinton's policies have encouraged the emergence of hard-line forces in Russia and the former senator said he hoped current Russian President Boris Yeltsin would win re-election in his race against Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov (zyoo-GAHN-ov). NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Commentator Frederica Mathewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) has noticed a generation switch with her children. She says they sport long hair and bellbottoms and seem to want to conform to a stage-managed version of her own adolescence and rebellion from the 60's. But her youngest son has turned the generational clock back even further. He's a 14 year old Rat Packer...adopting a version of rebellion more in line with his grandmother's generation.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the flurry of activity on capitol hill this week. Congress passed a number of bills -- including legislation to raise the debt ceiling, a line-item veto, and an overhaul of the farm bill . But lawmakers also got bogged down in some partisan fights, including a move by democrats to try to increase the minimum wage. That feuding is seen as a sign of trouble to come for the rest of the year, as democrats try to stymie the legislative efforts of presumptive gop presidential nominee Bob Dole.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports that despite the rush to hook schools to the Internet, there's still a lot of questions about just how useful on-line services are to students. Some schools that have just been connected find that without the right training, students and teachers often waste time learning how to use the Internet. Schools with more experience say it's crucial to structure lesson plans around Internet resources, and to make sure students are not just using computers as a toy.

allow a high-speed ferry line between Nyack and Manhattan with a 500-space parking garage for commuters. Opponents say the ferry and garage will ruin the small town nature of the community. Those in favor say the projects will provide a much-needed boost to the local economy

in damage, this winter's floods out west have restarted the debate between environmentalists and the construction industry. To accommodate a population boom in California, people are building houses everywhere...in many places they shouldn't be...on fault lines, in flood plains and on hill sides.