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NPR's Steve Inskeep looks at new ads released by Republicans today to counter an aggressive ad campaign launched by the AFL-CIO in the districts of several dozen Republicans running for Congress. The union ads have made several GOP incumbents nervous and angry, and they've charged that their records are being distorted. The latest AFL-CIO round of advertising has come in the form of what the union describes as ``electronic voter guides.''

Noah talks to violinist Lara St. John about her new CD, "Bach Works for Violin Solo." The cover of the CD is a photograph of St. John in a seductive pose. Even though the music has been receiving a good deal of critical acclaim, she -- and her record company -- have been criticized for using a sexually provocative photo as a way to sell classical music.

seemed to describe different economies belonging to different countries -- both named America.

The FBI announced today that it has arrested a civilian Navy intelligence analyst for allegedly giving classified information to South Korea. Robert Kim, a U.S. citizen who was born in South Korea, worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence. He is accused of gathering top-secret documents through his computer this year and passing them to an attache with the South Korean Embassy in Washington. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has been following one of this year's tight congressional races, between incumbent Democrat Paul McHale and Republican challenger Bob Kilbanks. One of the big factors as the campaign becomes increasingly tense is fundraising -- and Kilbanks is running into problems because some in the business community are still bitter that he beat their favorite candidate in the primary, or they think Kilbanks is too conservative to win.

"Tin Cup," a romantic comedy about golf, starring Kevin Costner and Renee Russo. Sports have been prominent in Shelton's other movies too, such as >Bull Durham. But, he says, he considers sports to be the setting in which characters interact.

Commentator Bob Garfield learns that Kuwait is planning to erect a 130-mile long elctric fence on its border with Iraq. He calls for an estimate for the job from a contractor in the American heartland.

-- the coroner says the woman, whose death he attended was not terminally ill.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on new speculation about Russia, Chechnya and who's in charge in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is out of town. And the man he put in charge of running government policy in Chehcnya, his security chief Alexander Lebed, is fighting on two fronts. While he works at settling the war in Chechnya, he's in daily battles with the bureaucracy in the Kremlin. The most recent attack from Lebed against the Kremlin is that Yeltsin's signature on recent decrees concerning Chechnya are facsimiles and not original.

who helped devise Bob Dole's economic proposal. Taylor defends the premise that Dole can implement a fifteen percent income tax cut, a fifty percent reduction in the capital gains tax rate, and a 500 dollar per-child tax credit, all that while still balancing the budget in six years.