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NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that third world sweatshops may have a new customer, the US military. Human rights activists are outraged over working conditions at a Taiwanese-owned factory in Nicaragua, which makes blue-jeans for the military's Exchange Service.

Vice President Al Gore has said he doesn't think either presidential candidate should be making transition plans, but Governor George W. Bush is wasting no time in preparing for the White House. NPR's John Burnett reports.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the fallout from the failed global warming meetings last week in the Hague. Delegates from the developed world failed to agree on how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases that exacerbate global warming. Now there are moves to try again.

Washington state's hotly contested senate race has finally been decided; the recount gave the seat to Democrat Maria Cantwell who won by a margin of 2,229 votes. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on how public officials and drug treatment leaders in California are dealing with a law scheduled to take effect in July next year. It orders most non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of jail.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on a German murder case which made headlines as a hate crime committed by neo-Nazis. But instead of racism, the trial is turning up a case of scapegoating, with East Germans taking the blame for the country's continuing division.

Keith Seinfeld of member station KPLU reports on initiatives on the ballots in Washington and Oregon that would ban the most common forms of animal traps. Trapping was once the economic engine of the Pacific northwest. The ballot measures are another sign of how the West is changing.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a study that found the use of two medications other than Methadone could help more people beat heroin addiction. Both drugs are synthetic narcotics, and unlike Methadone, they may be taken less often, allowing addicts easier access to treatment.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the radio commercials that the Bush and Gore campaigns are running in swing state markets. The ads are targeted for the narrow audiences that listen to the radio stations on which they're broadcast, emphasizing very select areas of each candidate's platform.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on new research that warns of potential trouble aboard ships' ballasts. Alien organisms like zebra mussels have spread worldwide via the holds of tankers and freighters. Now there's concern that ballasts could harbor microscopic disease organisms as well.