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NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports Israel's symphony orchestra played the music of Richard Wagner in concert Friday, the first time the orchestra has ever presented works by Hitler's favorite composer.

Half of New York City woke up happy today, and the other half depressed. NPR's Margot Adler reports on the aftermath of the "Subway Series."

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on a coal mine pond that gave way in eastern Kentucky, releasing 250-million gallons of thick black sludge that polluted streams, killed fish and cut off drinking water supplies. Cleanup is under way.

Noah talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the latest pro-basketball news, in advance of the National Basketball Association's new season, which starts next week. The Minnesota Timberwolves have been fined three-point-five million dollars and stripped of their next five first-round draft picks. The league says the Timberwolves violated the salary cap by making an under-the-table deal with player Joe Smith.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Mitrovica that nearly a year and a half after NATO forces entered Kosovo, this city remains a hotbed of ethnic tensions. Albanians and Serbs are locked in a stand-off over apartments, and jobs in the region's rusting heavy industry. But the United Nations administrator of the city, Bill Nash, is beginning to get the two sides to cooperate. Nash says the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade should make it easier for moderate Serbs to deal with the ethnic Albanian community.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional game of deliberately submitting to electric shocks is still being played in Mexico as well as Central and South America. Practitioners approach people, often in bars, and for a small fee, attach them to a device that applies an electric shock, which intensifies until the client can no longer take it. People who play call it say it's a fun game of endurance. But some American doctors question the safety of the practice, especially for people who have undiscovered heart problems.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Abidjan reports calm has returned to Ivory Coast after the new president and his main rival appealed for an end to the violence that has wracked the country for the past three days.

Texas Governor George W. Bush has always been a man who made friends easily and kept them for a long time. That ability has helped him make use of his opportunities in business and politics and to succeed where other sons of presidents have failed. With the election now just eleven days away, NPR's Steve Inskeep has this profile of the Republican nominee.

A federal court judge in Portland, Maine has issued a temporary injunction, preventing the state of Maine from carrying a new law intended to lower prescription drug prices. The drug industry sought the injunction, claiming that the law was unconstitutional because it attempts to force companies to negotiate discounts on drugs. The state has not yet decided whether to appeal the ruling. Charlotte Renner of Maine Public Radio reports.

Scott speaks with Wired magazine's John Heilemann about his article in the November issue about Microsoft and the government anti-trust case against the software giant.