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Crime was the campaign issue du jour, as both presidential candidates traveled to key battleground states today. Flanked by a group of Republican governors, Bob Dole unveiled an anti-crime proposal in suburban Philadelphia, in which he pledged to cut teenage drug use in half. President Clinton, meanwhile, traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to receive the endorsement of the nation's largest police organization, the Fraternal Order of Police. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the Dole campaign; Mara Liasson reports on Clinton.

"Millions of Americans — our neighbors, friends, family members — are still looking for jobs," the president says in his administration's annual report to Congress.

Life Kit reporter Andee Tagle talks with experts about how to manage situations when money makes relationships murky.

Hegseth under fire amid new Signalgate report and boat strike briefing, the FBI arrests man they say planted pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, SCOTUS allows Texas to use gerrymandered map.

In part two of our series on Islamic fundamentalism in central Asia, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Uzbekistan. The government there says the Islamic opposition threatens the country's peace and security, and it's using that as a reason to crack down on dissent. Critics say the crackdown invites trouble.

In Chicago, home to one of the nation's largest Ukrainian communities, many Ukrainians support opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in that country's upcoming rerun presidential vote. Chicago Public Radio's Diantha Parker reports.

At a Monday briefing, Governor Beshear reported Kentucky had more cases of the virus last week than any other point of the pandemic. Beshear said...

NPR"s John Burnett reports that New Orleans is a city extremely vulnerable to hurricane flood damage because it is surrounded by water and generally sits below sea level. The Army Corps of Engineers has erected a system of dikes to protect the city, but others fear a potential disaster if New Orleans is struck by a storm as big as Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida a few years ago. (7:30) CUTAWAY 1C 0:59 1D 7. CHRYSLER RECALL -- NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has gone to court to force Chrysler to recall 91,000 cars. Federal officials say that rear seat belts in the cars are unsafe, but Chrysler has resisted the recall, saying there's no problem. This is the first time an automaker has resisted federal requests for a voluntary recall.

War correspondent and CNN's international correspondent PETER ARNETT. He's best known for his reporting from Baghdad during the allied bombing raid which heralded the start of the Gulf War. ARNETT has over 30 years of experience reporting, mostly for the Associated Press. He won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Vietnam war . Later he covered wars in Cyprus and Lebanon. In 1981 he made the switch to television, when he joined CNN. After learning the ropes, he was sent to El Salvador, Moscow, and then Iraq. ARNETT has a new memoir, "Peter Arnett: Live From the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad - 35 Years in the World's War Zones." (Simon & Schuster). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

While Capitol Hill is consumed with debate over the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, public opinion seems less vocal. NPR asked three reporters to ask three groups of people whether it matter if weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports that to a group of vets in San Diego, finding the weapons is something they believe will happen, and their faith that they exist in Iraq is unshaken. NPR's Tom Goldman found a group of people in Portland, Ore., who are much more skeptical of U.S. officials' claims that the weapons exist -- and believe lies may have been told to build support for the war. And Nancy Solomon found a group in New Jersey who have mixed feelings about finding weapons of mass destruction.