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Adam Hochberg reports from Raleigh on a lawsuit brought y a former police officer who handed out religious material along with traffic ickets. The cop - who was fired - says his constitutional rights have been iolated.

As the summer's first major storm hits the U.S., NPR's Adam Hochberg will talk with Linda about damage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Eileen Leblanc (luh-BLAHNK) of member station WHQR will report from Wilmington, NC. Both cities are in the path of the storm.

- NPR's David Welna reports on the swirl of scandal surrounding Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Charges are being leveled that Zedillo, before he became president, was involved in a case involving suspected corruption.

Commentator Susan Aaronson (AIR-un-sun) says that too often, reporters use inflammatory language or dramatic metaphors to explain economic situations...phrases such as "trade war," in describing our relationship with China, are misleading and inaccurate.

Steven Smith of Minnesota Public radio reports on the challenges to creating viable businesses in Black communities. African Americans spend 400-billion dollars a year on consumer items, but Black leaders want a higher proportion of that to go to black-owned businesses.

In California today, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole addressed high school students about the dangers of drug use and chastised the entertainment and fashion industries for glamorizing drugs. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on oday's start of talks between Israelis and Palestinians which have been rranged to settle the question of Israeli withdrawl from the West Bank town of ebron.

It's been only five days since the elections that returned President Clinton and the Republican-led Congress to power, but already the first signs of tension are beginning to emerge. NPR's John Nielsen reports on the President and Congress' conflicting agendas for the years ahead.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on new data that supports a controversial theory that women who have elective abortions are at increased risk for getting breast cancer.

The White House and Congress settled on a bill authorizing numerous new parks yesterday. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the winners--San Francisco's Presidio Park, for example--and some of the losers, including Alaska's Tongass National Forest.