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With San Diego right near the Mexican border, immigration issues have been dominant inside and outside the Republican National Convention. Activists opposed to restrictions on benefits for legal and illegal immigrants have been protesting throughout the city against the Republican platform, which calls for such limits. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

A federal judge has ordered Boston Latin School to admit a white eighth-grade girl, who claims that a quota system for African-American and Hispanic students barred her from the prestigious public school. Mark Degon of member station WBUR reports.

Liane Hansen speaks with organist Dorothy Papadakos papa-DAHK-us) about her new cd, "Dorothy Over the Rainbow -- Improvisations on he Great Organ" (Pro Organo CD 7080). She gives us a progress report on the estoration of the organ at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Reporter David Culhane speaks with Liane Hansen about ow French leaders view the American role in trying to bring peace to the former ugoslavia. Culhane says most Europeans believe U-S involvement is driven by merican election politics. They also discuss the U-S response to the latest risis in Iraq.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that the FBI has set up an 800 number to handle tips from normal citizens that might help explain why TWA Flight 800 crashed. The bureau typically gets a high volume of calls on such lines, but they say any one call can provide a critical piece of information.

Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the Israeli cabinet voting to remove curbs on expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that further endangers the already stalled Middle East peace process. Today's action did not spell out when and where the settlements will be expanded, but left those determinations to the various government ministries involved.

author of a new book, >Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action. Zelnick says his research shows that affirmative action not only appears to be harming minorities, but may even be illegal.

- NPR's Sunni Khalid reports on a camp for Kurdish refugees that has been set up in Iran by that country's red cross. The Kurds fled over the border from Northern Iraq after Saddam Hussein's troops and members of one Kurdish faction...evicted another Kurdish faction out of several towns.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that on his way to peace talks in the United States, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat conferred with the leading foreign ministers of the European Union seeking to reassert their region's influence in the Middle East, despite the U.S. initiative to hold new peace talks in Washington.

A federal jury today found Sun Diamond Growers, a California agribusiness giant, guilty of giving illegal gifts to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, and making illegal campaign contributions to his brother. Espy himself was not charged, but the case was part of an independent counsel's investigation. NPR's Peter Overby reports.