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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade on a change in the protest movement against the government of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The daily street demonstrations haven't stopped since last November. They've given birth to new initiatives to change the political, civic and economic landscape in Serbia.

reports that many of the new AIDS treatments are failing to reach some minority communities. Concern is growing that Latinos and African-Americans find out too late that they are infected with the virus.

Gillian Sharpe reports from The Hague that the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has begun considering all the evidence from the first trial. Prosecution and defense attornies wrapped up their arguments today in the case of a Bosnian Serb, Dusan Tadic, who is accused of crimes against humanity.

On the steps of the Supreme Court today, activists for both sides of the assisted-suicide issue held demonstrations while the Justices heard arguments. Members of the Hemlock Society, which advocates the right to suicide, debated disabled-rights activists who fear legalized suicide could lead to euthanasia. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Commissioners in Miami are trying to sort out the city's troubled finances. With a sixty-eight million dollar deficit, the city is in a state of financial emergency. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Miami officials are now scrambling to collect fees to make up some of the shortfall.

Savi Chadri reports on the condition of Mother Teresa, who underwent surgery today for a heart condition. Doctors said the elderly nun would have died without the surgery. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poor of Calcutta.

One of President Clinton's top goals for his second term is to improve the nation's education system. NPR's Mara Liasson reports that in the coming year, the president will push for the passage of a college tuition tax credit and for federal funding of a national literacy program, in an effort to stop the slide of America's elementary and secondary schools.

NPR'S MaryKay Magistad reports that Secretary Warren Christopher met today with China's top leaders to forge a better relationship between the United States and China. Though there was no official statement made, progress was made on several issues, including nuclear non-proliferation.

Linda talks with Charles Gasparino, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal . They discuss the strong stock market of the last ten years, and how investors who have never experienced a "bear market" may react when the economic indicators experience a downward turn.

Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin report on their fictional senatorial candidates, businessman Bob Gunderson and incumbent Chuck Zeffirelli. On this election day, both Gunderson and Zeffirelli make surprise announcements.