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NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on briefs filed with the Supreme Court today, in advance of tomorrow's oral arguments on election questions. The Bush campaign is asking the Supreme Court to say that the Florida State Supreme Court was wrong to extend the deadline for counties to report voting results. Such a decision would make it too late for the Gore campaign to contest the results. The Gore campaign is asking for the Supreme Court to uphold the state court. But also, in its brief, the Gore campaign is warning that if the Florida legislature plans to select is own delegates to the Electoral College, the Gore camp thinks it has legal grounds to stop them.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the presidential election. Most of the questions raised by the justices seemed aimed at understanding what role, if any, they play in reviewing the Florida State Supreme Court's decisions. Attorneys for George W. Bush argued that the Florida court decision extending the deadline for counties to report vote tallies was unconstitutional. Al Gore's lawyers said the state supreme court is the final interpreter of state election law and the U.S. Supreme Court should defer to the Florida justices.

The earliest-known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex -- the prehistoric world's most famous predator -- sported short "protofeathers," scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Nature. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

CBS News fires four staff members for their roles in producing a 60 Minutes Wednesday report on President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard.

American soldiers fire on former Iraqi soldiers protesting outside the U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad, killing two and wounding two others, the U.S. military reports. U.S. forces are seeking to suppress opposition in a central Iraqi region where Sunni Muslims -- once loyal to Saddam Hussein -- are blamed for coordinating a series of attacks on American troops. In the first of a three-part series on Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious groups, NPR's Deborah Amos reports the main flashpoint of these attacks is an area in central Iraq known as the Sunni triangle.

Since last year, a multinational war crimes court has been working in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, trying to find and prosecute those responsible for atrocities committed during the civil war there in the 1990s. This week, the court indicted Charles Taylor, president of neighboring Liberia. American RadioWorks reporters Michael Montgomery and Deborah George were allowed unusual access to the special court and its investigators for this report. American RadioWorks is the national documentary unit of Minnesota Public Radio.

A military panel says it did not find evidence of religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. The task force said cadets and staff do have more to learn about being sensitive to other people's beliefs. The report comes after allegations that Evangelical Christian cadets were given special treatment and encouraged to convert their colleagues. Critics are giving the task force report and recommendations mixed reviews.

In April, New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins will receive the George Polk Award for War Reporting for "his riveting, first-hand account of an eight-day attack on Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah." We talk with him about the rebuilding country and its recent elections.

The commission investigating events surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks says the U.S. government did not fully appreciate the danger posed by al Qaeda. The report describes failures of Congress and both the Clinton and Bush administrations.

A group of anesthesiologists discusses reports that patients who are put into a deeper sleep during surgery are more likely to die within weeks, or months. Experts in the field say that while people over 65 may be at a greater risk, tens of thousands of deaths may be preventable by taking the findings into account. NPR's Richard Knox reports.