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Vice President Al Gore took some time off the campaign trail today to watch his son play a school football game, but not before he spoke to voters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where health care is a big issue. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Ivory Coast where opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo seized control yesterday after military president Robert Guei fled the capital during massive public demonstrations. But the new government now faces protests by supporters of candidates barred from last week's elections.

Planned Parenthood has invited an adoption counselor into its downtown Chicago clinic. Chicago Public Radio's Shirley Jahad reports the unusual alliance of an abortion provider and adoption agency is meant to give women more information and choices. The new partnership is drawing some praise and some fire.

NPR's Jonathan Miller reports on the latest from Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced a nationwide search for disgraced former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos' exposure in a corruption scandal last year weakened Fujimori's control of the country and led him to announce he will resign from the presidency two years early.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the final push towards election day for Al Gore and George W. Bush. With less than two weeks to go, the presidential candidates traded shots at each other while campaigning to hold states each had once thought guaranteed.

NPR's Charles Maynes reports form Moscow that divers are beginning to recover bodies from the Kursk, the Russian nuclear submarine that sank in the Berents sea three months ago. All 118 crew members were killed in Russia's worst naval disaster ever.

Colorado Public Radio's Howie Movshovitz reports on the remake of the classic Brazilian film, Black Orpheus. Unlike the original, the new movie plays up to the reality of black life in Brazil, including the violence and the poverty, and uses the backdrop of Carnival to highlight the discrepancies in Brazilian society.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on lifestyle options of those who've made a fortune in high-tech. With the resources to retire at very early ages, some former employees of AOL are finding ways to enjoy some of life simple pleasures while remaining productive.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Pristina on the rebuilding of the justice system in Kosovo. In Kosovo's first free municipal election over the weekend, moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, of the Democratic League of Kosovo claimed victory over guerrilla war veterans.

Host Renee Montagne talks to reporter Mathew Moore of the Sydney Morning Herald, about the 11th Summer Paralympic Games. Approximately four thousand disabled athletes participated in the events that ended yesterday bringing to an end to two months of sporting extravaganza in Australia.