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The FBI has arrested one of its own on charges of spying for Moscow. Earl Edwin Pitts, who has been with the FBI for 13 years, is accused of taking more than 200-thousand dollars to spy for the Soviet Union, beginning in 1987. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that Pitts was arrested at work at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, today. Pitts faces attempted espionage and conspiracy charges that could put him in prison for life.

in Jerusalem, don't worry, there's now another route to contact God. He's now accepting e-mail.

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NPR's Edward Lifson reports from Belgrade where the government of President Slobodan Milosevic has made a major concession to the Opposition. Tonight, on television, the Justice Ministry acknowledged that the Opposition had won local elections last November in Nis (NEESH), Serbia's second largest city. It was the annulment of the election victory in Nis and other cities that prompted daily protests for the past 50 days.

On the steps of the Supreme Court today, activists for both sides of the assisted-suicide issue held demonstrations while the Justices heard arguments. Members of the Hemlock Society, which advocates the right to suicide, debated disabled-rights activists who fear legalized suicide could lead to euthanasia. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

that went into the 1996 election campaign, the most expensive in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike created new ways to raise and spend millions of dollars. Washington lobbyists say the pressure to contribute was enormous, as were the amounts they were asked to donate.

in his civil trial. He faced tough questions about the blood evidence found in his Bronco, the cuts on his finger and the revelation that he failed a polygraph test shortly after the murders.

Commentator Kevin Kling thinks that the right haircut can do wonders for a person's outlook on life...transforming the timid to the bold, the shy to the extroverted. The wrong haircut, though...that's a different story.

Noah talks with Tim Weige, sports director at Chicago television station WBBM and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, about today's news that the baseball owners have ratified a new five-year agreement with the players' union, effectively ending the dispute which began with the 1994 baseball strike. Under the agreement...the same one that was rejected by owners three weeks ago...there will be inter-league play in 1997, and a revenue sharing agreement for the smaller major-league baseball markets. Bud Selig, the interim commissioner of baseball, applauded the agreement, but leaders of the Major League Players' Association will have to meet next week to finalize the deal.

Music reviewer Bonnie Grice has only good things to say about a new recording of tangos called "Tango Among Friends." Classical pianist Daniel Barenboim is featured on the keyboard, along with Hector Console on acoustic bass and Rodolfo Mederos on the bandoneon. She says it reflects the musical roots of Barenboim, who spent part of his childhood growing up in Buenos Aires---and reflects the sounds of Argentina's national dance and the European concert hall.