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- 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.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that Israeli settlers in the West Bank are already talking of expanding their building projects, now that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is heading the government. But even as they celebrate, there is a shadow of potential violence from Palestinian extremists, who see their hopes of a Palestinian state fading.

NPR's John Burnett reports that the promises of legalized gambling for an economic bonanza for Louisiana residents have not been kept, and now there is a backlash against the industry. Graft, organized crime, and the bankruptcy of what was to be the world's "largest" casino in New Orleans have state residents considering tighter controls of various forms of gambling.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the surprisingly strong figures for job growth in the month of May, and what they might mean for the nation's economy...and the fall election. May's job figures were more than twice what analysts expected, and sent some investors scrambling in response to fears that interest rates will rise to ward off inflation.

NPR'S Margot Adler reports that it has been two decades, to the day, since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could resume the death penalty. She examines America's continuing obsession with and ambivalence about the ultimate penalty.

- NPR's John Greenberg reports on measures announced by President Bill Clinton today to crackdown on arsonists who have set fire to more than two dozen Black churches in southern states. The president has formed a Treasury Department task force and established a toll-free hotline that persons with information about these fires can call.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports the Clinton Administration has unveiled a proposal to make pensions more available and secure for American workers. The initiative, a mix of old and new ideas for reforming pension regulations, would expand the availablity of IRA savings plans, make four-oh- one retirement plans more portable and simplify the process of establishing a 401K plan.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that four companies accused of failing to protect poeple with hemophilia from the AIDS virus are proposing a plan to settle pending lawsuits. The plan would pay $600 million to thousands of people who were infected with the AIDS virus by infected clotting factor. But it's unclear whether enough of them will agree to the plan.