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Taking a break from his Santa Barbara vacation today, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and runningmate Jack Kemp meet with local business leaders to discuss their tax plan. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

Police in Compton, California are holding 23 gang suspects suspected of pursuing a gang war that may have been sparked by the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports on the investigation.

- The worst drought in 50 years has hit the US-Mexico border region. And, as Sandy Tolan reports, the drought has had severe economic impact on both farmers and ranchers.

Federal Reserve policymakers met in Washington today and decided to leave interest rates alone for the time being. The Federal Reserve made no comment, but there was plenty of speculation about why they didn't act, as NPR's John Ydstie reports.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Republican candidate Bob Dole campaigned today in St. Louis. Dole continued his argument that President Clinton cannot be trusted and that Clinton is a liberal.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on a series of proposals announced today aimed at cleaning up one of the nation's largest police forces... one rocked by an on-going Federal corruption probe.

- Nearly 125 years after the Great Fire of Chicago, the city's fire department still depends on an antiquated teletype machine to dispatch its fire trucks. NPR's Edward Lifson reports on the machine's imminent demise.

NPR'S John Ydstie reports on the death of William Vickrey, the Canadian-born economist who died from a heart attack three days after he won a shared Nobel Prize for economics.

The Supreme Court today struck down sections of the 1992 Cable Act that restricted indecent programs on certain cable channels. But it upheld another provision that allowed individual cable companies to refuse to air such programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on budget cuts and their effect on City University of New York, once commonly called the poor man's Harvard. Big cuts and rising tuition have made it more difficult for the mostly working-class student body.