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Laura Sydell of member station WNYC reports that William Bratton, New York's high profile police commissioner is resigning after two years in charge of the nation's largest police department. The resignation comes amid speculation that Mayor Giuliani at times bristled at Bratton's high profile.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Air Force T-43 carrying Secretary Ron Brown and delegation wasn't equipped with the so called black box or flight data recorder. The pentagon says that's because the aircraft was procured as a training aircraft...and so it didn't come with that euipment as civilian aircraft do.

Retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian is on trial again. He is charged with assisting in the suicides of two of his patients. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that this trial raises the question of whether people who are not terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in killing themselves.

Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on today's attacks y Lebanese-based Hizbollah fighters on Israeli soldiers in Southern Lebanon, nd retaliatory attacks by Israeli warplanes and artillery. Technically, these ttacks do not violate the latest truce, agreed to after last month's bombing aids between Israel and Hizbollah.

Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut announced al-the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Estimates are that about 150 Lebanese had been killed in the fighting and more than 400 wounded. Hafez Assad in Damascus said the ceasefire was not substitute of peace. Jennifer Griffin reports from Beirut.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the six year old boy in California who has been charged with attempted murder in the near beating death of a one month old baby. Authorities aren't yet releasing the boy's name but they say he's the youngest person ever to be charged with a felony.

Frank Stasio reports that in a suburb of Washington, D.C., a group of Cambodian-American teachers is trying to keep alive the tradition of classical Cambodian dance. After the Cambodian genocide of the 1970's, the perpetuation of that art form was threatened, as most of Cambodia's artistic figures were murdered. Now, in the U.S., young Cambodian-Americans are reviving the dance.

There was a summit in Washington this week to discuss the politics of meaning, a new political movement offering progressives/liberals a way to 'reclaim' the family values issue which has been monopolized by the right. They held a Summit on Ethics and Meaning and proposed a "Covenant with American Families", their answer to the Christian Coalition's Contract with American Families. Lynn Neary reports.

Milwaukee has a tradition of electing liberal mayors. But Democrat John Norquist, the city's three-term mayor, stands apart from tradition. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that although Norquist supports abortion rights and gun control, he wants to end welfare and has reduced city spending significantly.

reports that some of the assumptions about corporate downsizing are being re-examined by business analysts. While numerous companies have laid off large numbers of employees, some economists argue that significant numbers of new jobs are being created to offset those layoffs and the new jobs are not necessarily low-skill or low-paying.