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Despite claims by the Department of Defense that sexual assault in the military has been cut in half, female soldiers and counselors say the problem remains acute. NPR's John Burnett reports.

The Washington Post reports new pictures and short videos show prisoners being physically and sexually abused at Abu Ghraib last year. Sworn statements from detainees describe a range of abuse more brutal than previously reported. Meanwhile, Iraqi officials say they've made several arrests in connection to the beheading of American civilian Nick Berg. Hear NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

Citigroup agrees to pay $2.65 billion to settle a class-action suit brought by investors over its role in the WorldCom scandal. Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney issued optimistic research reports on WorldCom and helped it raise money by selling its securities. The money will be paid to those who held company shares between 1999 and 2002, when the telecom giant declared bankruptcy. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Jackson Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman who reported that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended an all-white private school.

A Henry County High School teacher was suspended late last month for alleged inappropriate communication with a student.WKMS News obtained a document from…

In 2017, the man reported an income under $20,000, and also reported paying $1 million in withholding taxes. The IRS refunded him $980,000 — that is, until it figured out what he had done.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that President Clinton's controversial campaign advisor, Dick Morris, resigned today after published reports that he had carried on a year-long relationship with a prostitute, and had shared with her a copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech before it was given. It is also alleged that Morris let the woman listen in on a presidential phone conversation. Morris has been a lightning rod for criticism because of his brash style and advice to Clinton to move to the center politically. The resignation comes at the high point of a convention that Democrats -- and the president's campaign staff -- hope will propel Clinton to victory in November.

In the first of two reports, NPR's Ann Cooper profiles two Russian families... how they view their lives and how they intend to vote in next week's Presidential run-off election. One family lives in Moscow and supports Russian President Yeltsin. The other family lives in Ivanovo (ee-VAH-noh-vuh), an industrial city northeast of Moscow, and supports Communist Gennady Zyuganov ((gen-AH-dee zyu-GAH-noff)). Today's report features the family living in Ivanovo (e-VAH-noh-vuh), where industrial reform has been a disaster.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on the American Medical Association's latest findings on the impact of media violence on children. The AMA surveyed studies on the impact of TV mayhem dating back to the fifties. The AMA report connects a host of childhood health problems to excessive television watching and determines that violent entertainment causes violent behavior. To help parents cope, the medical association issued guidelines that among other things urge parents to keep TV's and VCR's OUT of their kids' rooms. The guidelines are being distributed to physicians across the country.

The Senate Intelligence Committee today saw a demonstration of some continuing concern about a newspaper report that the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored drug trafficking activity in Los Angeles. Protesters who said the story was being covered up disrupted an Intelligence Committee hearing at which two former leaders of the Nicaraguan Contras, the alleged beneficiaries of the drug profits, denied that they knowingly received any drug money. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the Intelligence Committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, set aside routine procedure and did not have the protesters ejected. He said he wanted to show that he is not participating in a coverup.