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NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the Justice Department has given a federal prosecutor in New York jurisdiction to investigate all of then-President Clinton's last-minute pardons. Attorney General John Ashcroft has given U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White authority to look into any claims that cash or other benefits were exchanged for pardons.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that school officials across the country are trying to prevent shootings similar to last week's incident at Santana High School in California. While they say student tips are the best way to prevent violence, many students still think that would be a betrayal of their peers.

Nancy Solomon, of member station KLCC in Oregon, reports on an extradition battle for 70-year-old Robert Lee Burns. He's been living in Oregon for 20 years, but now California says it wants him back, so he can complete his sentence for the 1963 murder of a highway patrolman.

Journalist Bill Sloan is the author of –I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby! A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact—. Sloan is a former tabloid insider having worked for –The National Enquirer,— Montreals –Midnight— (now called –Globe—), and the –National Tattler.— Sloan was also an investigative reporter for the Dallas Times Herald.

NPR's Kathy Schalch reports on the last days of the U.S.-Canadian softwood lumber agreement. The agreement expires at the end of the month, to the relief of many who argued it subsidized Canadian lumber and hurt American businesses and consumers. Environmentalists hated it as well. But a new agreement regulating lumber trade is likely to create as much controversy as the old agreement.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that a plaque was erected in the New Hampshire State House to honor the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The 12-member group fought in the Spanish civil war to support the Loyalist government. But some say the plaque is memorializing Communists and Communist sympathizers.

In anticipation of upcoming writers' and actors' strikes, Hollywood studios are shooting more and more "reality" shows. NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports on the advantages of "reality TV" -- they are non-union, don't use actors or "writers" in the traditional sense, and like Survivor, have the potential to be very profitable.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports on a group of six Thai elephants that have been honing their musical abilities. They just released their first CD. Hear a song from that CD entitled Temple Music. You can find out more at www.mulatta.org. (6:43-8:20)

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Israeli Prime-Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's efforts to build a national unity government. Sharon's Likud party holds only 19 out of 120 seats in the Israeli Parliament, and many Israelis say that Sharon must include the defeated Labor party in his government in order to accomplish anything.

African American poet Cornelius Eady has published seven poetry collections, and was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His latest, Brutal Imagination (Putnam) is a cycle of poems that revisits the Susan Smith child murder case through the voice of the imaginary black man she said carjacked and kidnapped her children. From New York, Tom Vitale reports.