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NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports on violence in the Gaza Strip today. Israeli tanks and bulldozers pushed into a Palestinian refugee camp, demolishing 20 buildings Israel says were used by Palestinian gunmen for cover.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on the high and low points in the career of FBI Director Louis Freeh. Freeh announced yesterday he would step down from the post in June, two years before his 10-year term expires.

Host Bob Edwards talks with LA Times reporter Anthony Kuhn about Beijing's reaction today to President Bush's statement that the U.S. would protect Taiwan against Chinese aggression.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets tomorrow to consider a plan to ease California's power crisis. The commission may back off from its opposition to electricity price caps by approving temporary caps during power emergencies. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham that testimony started today in the trial of Thomas Blanton Jr., who is charged with murder in the civil-rights-era bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four girls died in the blast in 1963.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Johannesburg reports long-simmering differences within South Africa's ruling party burst into the open this week with allegations that three prominent members of the party were plotting to oust President Thabo Mbeki.

NPR's Robert Smith reports from Pearl Harbor on the 24 surveillance plane crew members who are being further debriefed there.

NPR's Wendy Kaufmann reports on how the 24-member U.S. Navy air crew passed the time while in detention in China. It wasn't all serious business--gin rummy and American pop songs were also part of the mix.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on the struggling image of Germany's conservative political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Analysts claim the CDU lacks a definitive political identity, and consequently, much of the German population views it as "incompetent."

NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Davenport, Iowa as it braces against rising floodwaters of the Mississippi River. Residents of Davenport have chosen not to build a permanent floodwall and now federal officials say taxpayers shouldn't have to rescue their riverfront.