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The federal government is looking at a new generation of safety technologies for the airline industry. The effort follows a year in which scores of people died in two highly publicized crashes of TWA and Valuejet planes. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports the new safety measures could save lives, but the cost will be high and industry executives are worried about having to bear the burden.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that AT&T announced an aggressive expansion of its wireless telephone services today. The company plans to make a package of wireless services -- including data, paging and e-mail -- available in forty of the nation's largest markets. Several other companies are racing to provide similar services on a national basis.

The Canadian Auto Workers went on strike against General Motors early this morning. The C.A.W. says a strike is necessary because G.M. farms out a lot of its work to outside, non-union suppliers. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the strike should have little effect on General Motors in the United States unless it continues for more than a week.

President Clinton began a three-day campaign swing today that will take him to Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and California. Today in Kansas City, the president addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Governors' Association and said that the welfare reform legislation he recently signed will only be successful if states and businesses can work together to create jobs. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

More than a decade after a lawsuit charging Dallas with racism in its public housing policies, public housing units will soon be built in Dallas' white suburbs for minorities. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that while some white homeowners worked to forge a compromise on the project, others remain angry about having public housing in their neighborhood.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on today's court hearing during which a judge ordered Major League umpires back to work. The umpires had threatened a protest strike over the delayed punishment meted out to Orioles player Roberto Alomar, who spit in the face of an umpire when he got into a heated argument over a call.

Several of Mexico's most-acclaimed musicians are living in Texas and playing in Tex-Mex burrito joints and at rodeos. But they don't seem to mind...because they're making a LOT more money doing that than they would have if they'd stayed in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.

With the renewed focus on the violent lyrics of gangsta rap after the death of Tupac Shakur, a group of Minneapolis rappers -- who call their collective Head Shots -- say they want to take rap back to its roots...and away from the corporate music industry they say has corrupted it. Chris Roberts reports.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from the United Nations on the signing today of a treaty banning nuclear testing. The United States was the first to sign the treaty and following the signing, President Clinton delivered his annual address to the U.N. General Assembly. He called for all countries to get toughter on terrorists and drug traffickers.

Virginia Biggar reports on the second day of the civil trial of O.J. Simpson. Lawyers for the families of the murder victims summed up their opening statement by describing Simpson as obsessed with rejections by his ex-wife. Simpson's lawyers began their statement with a different take on the relationship, arguing that it was Nicole Brown Simpson who pursued her ex-husband, and who kept up a warm and friendly relationship.