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Legal observers in the Oklahoma Bombing case are saying, true or not, a widely publicized report by the Dallas Morning News that Timothy McVeigh confided to his defense team that he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building will make it even harder to ensure that McVeigh receives a fair trial. NPR's Mark Roberts reports from Denver.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the Justice Department has decided to settle its case against two dozen Wall Street brokers who trade in the NASDAQ market. The brokerage firms were being investigated for alleged price-fixing and collusion among NASDAQ market makers. Press reports say the Justice Department will file a lawsuit and proposed settlement in federal court in New York today.

Palestinian security police are reported to have arrested dozens of Palestinians suspected of participating in a demonstration against Yasser Arafat over recent human rights violations. These violations were highlighted last week by the death...after the apparent beating and torture... of a Palestinian dissident in Nablus. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on Palestinian unease about the behavior of their police.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was on Capitol Hill today delivering his semi-annual economic report. The Fed Chairman kept his interest rate cards close to his chest and said the economy is at a crucial point in the business cycle and could go in two significantly different directions in the near future.

According to a report released today by Amnesty International, there is a widespread pattern of police brutality against minorities in New York City Police Department. Amnesty recommended that the police set up an independent review board. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the city's police commissioner both called the findings inaccurate. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

From Baku, Azerbaijan, NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the possibility of a caviar shortage in the future due to environmental threats to the sturgeon fish that produces the delicacy. Most of the world's caviar comes from the Caspian sea, near Baku. Garrels reports since the break up of the Soviet Union, pollution in the Caspian and illegal fishing have increased...both of which are threats to the caviar producing sturgeons.

NPR's Paul Miller reports on problems with the investigation into the bombing in Saudi Arabia last June in which 19 Americans were killed. The FBI says it is pleased with the way the Saudis are conducting the investigation - but reports are surfacing of disagreements between the two countries about how the investigation has been handled and the conclusions it may have reached.

The National Research Council today released a report on whether power lines have an adverse affect on human health. Some have suggested that the electric and magnetic fields generated by power lines can cause human disease, but the research council found scant evidence of that. Richard Harris reports.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that researchers have worked out the mechanims--on a molecular level--by which a carcinogen in cigarette smoke causes cancer. Some say this closes a loophole tobacco companies used to question the link between smoking and cancer, but as NPR's Richard Harris reports...companies don't rely on that argument in their litigation.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that despite reports from northern Iraq that some Iraqi troops have dug-in south of Irbil and that rival Kurdish groups were still clashing, US officials insist the Iraqi army is standing down and withdrawing from the UN air-patrolled area of northern Iraq.