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Before he leaves the country, the president is also expected to make economic remarks from the White House.

Congress is examining the media's coverage of last November's election night results. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce invited executives from the Voter News Service and the major networks to speak at a hearing today. NPR's Lynn Neary is covering the hearing.

The Navy is defending its practice of inviting civilian visitors on warships to sit in control positions during exercises. Officials do admit that civilians may have been a distraction aboard the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville during the sub's fatal surfacing maneuver last Friday. The sub collided with a Japanese fishing trawler, sinking the ship. Nine people are still missing and presumed drowned in the incident off the coast of Hawaii. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Art Silverman confesses that he knows the man who brought on the downfall of pay telephones.

It's the end of the assembly line - literally - for Britain's three-wheeled cars. The last Reliant Robin was produced today in London. NoahAdams talks with Graham Chapell, National Secretary of the Reliant Owners Club in Sheffield, England.

Wisconsin has established a 50-mile-per-hour nighttime speed limit for snowmobiles. Noah Adams talks with Karl Brooks, Snowmobile and ATV Administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Law Enforcement in Madison, Wis., about the state's reasons.

Part of President George W. Bush's tax plan calls for the elimination of the estate tax. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Janet Hook of the LA Times who says that the repeal of the estate tax has moved to the bottom of the tax cut agenda.

When former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic lost the presidential election last September, young people celebrated. His defeat was largely the result of a grassroots effort led by a group of mostly young people called "Otpor" or "Resistance. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with one of the members of Otpor, Slobodan Homen.

NPR's Rob Gifford talks to host Lisa Simeone about a new tax fraud scam in China that could be the worst corruption scandal since Communists took over the country in 1949.

The founder of a support group for people who have caused accidental death or injury has some personal insight on the emotions stirred up by the killing of a cast member on the set of the movie Rust.