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Jerome Vaughn in Detroit reports Firestone is nearly finished with its recall of more than six-million tires, but the company still has serious problems. It faces legal action on the recall, and is laying off more than a thousand workers. Meanwhile federal investigators are looking into thirty accidents involving Goodyear tires called "Load Range E."

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from West Palm Beach, Florida, where a manual recount of the November 7th vote continues today. On Monday, oral arguments will be heard in Florida state Supreme Court as to whether the hand recounts are valid. Meanwhile, officials in Miami-Dade county said hand tallying could take until early December to be completed.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on another day of escalating violence in Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine. A car bomb killed at least two Israelis and wounded dozens in the northern Israel town of Hadera. In Gaza, Israeli soldiers ambushed a senior Fatah official and his motorcade killing the commander and three others.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports from San Francisco on what could be a new era for the city's two newspapers. The Chronicle and The Examiner are long time rivals, with one paper focused on the region and the other on the city. Now, after a bitter anti-trust case, the two newspapers are merging under new ownership.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports from Washington on the Bush campaign's appeals to the U-S Supreme Court, to overturn Tuesday's Florida State Supreme Court ruling. Until now, the federal courts have refused to intervene in the Florida Election dispute, on the grounds that it's a matter for the State of Florida to decide. Meanwhile, Republicans in the Florida legislature are threatening to get involved.

The U.S. economy is slowing down from its red-hot growth of the past few years. As NPR's John Ydstie reports, most economists believe the economy is in fine shape, growing at a sustainable level without significant inflation. But some worry that there are enough trouble spots -- declining corporate profits, a cheerless stock market and uncertainty over the presidential election -- to throw the economy into recession.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports one of the last points of Israeli-Palestinian contact was severed today. An Israeli soldier was killed and at least two Palestinians injured in an attack on a joint security liaison office in the Gaza Strip. Israel then ordered Palestinian security officers to leave all the liaison offices throughout the West Bank and Gaza.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on racial disparities between African-Americans and whites when it comes to kidney transplants. A new study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that overuse of transplants in whites, coupled with socioeconomic factors among blacks accounts for the transplant gap. Providing a better social infrastructure for low-income blacks would eliminate much of the disparity.

NPR's Ina Jaffe in Los Angeles has a report on the Rampart police corruption scandal in Los Angeles. Earlier this month, three officers were found guilty of conspiring to frame gang members - but those convictions are being questioned. The court is looking into allegations of jury misconduct and other irregularities.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on another ruling from the Florida Supreme Court- this one on a tobacco controversy. The seven justices reinstated a 750 thousand dollar to a smoker who sued the nation's third largest cigarette maker, Brown & Williamson. It's only the second time a tobacco company has been ordered to pay damages.