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NPR's Andy Bowers reports that state and local governments across the country are now seriously considering a change in the way their citizens vote. In California and other states, there are calls to banish punch cards. Some people suggest using optical scanners, touch screen computers, or ATM type voting technology. The way electors are distributed is also up for debate in Illinois, which currently has a winner-take-all system.

Leda Hartman reports from North Carolina, where the pregnancy rate for young Latina women has remained high, during a drop in the teen pregnancy rate nationwide. While experts have identified possible factors that encourage pregnancy among teenage Latinas, institutions have been slow to address the problems.

Teenage students who are academically gifted but classified as illegal aliens, often fail to go on to college after high school because they lack proper documentation and fear deportation if they seek higher education. Recently, the Board of Regents in Dalton, Georgia ruled that students, who are here illegally, will be allowed to attend the state's colleges if they are academically qualified. Rob Hilton reports.

A stand of trees near Brandenburg, Germany is being cut down today, in an action to eliminate a remaining vestige of the Nazi era. When the trees turn color in the fall, the colors form a swastika that contrasts against surrounding evergreens that can be seen from the air. Noah talks with Adam Tanner, a reporter for Reuters News Service in Munich, Germany, who has been covering the story.

Sad accounts of babies being dumped to die prompted many areas of the country to designate places where parents could safely abandon their newborns and escape prosecution. However, hardly any infants have been turned in this way. NPR's Jerome Vaughn reports from Detroit that supporters of the idea say they just need to back their good intentions with publicity.

Lawyers for George W. Bush were shuttling back and forth between two trials this morning in Tallahassee, Florida. Lawsuits filed from Seminole and Martin counties were attempting to disallow thousands of absentee ballots cast in those counties, most of them for Bush. The suits allege that Republicans seeking absentee ballots got special help in qualifying for them. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Tallahassee.

High school students went to the polls yesterday. Over 40,000 teenagers across the country cast their ballots for president as a part of Kid V-O-T-E-S -- a mock election designed to get young people excited about the democratic process. For the last three elections, it's also proved to be an accurate predictor of which candidate their parents will chose the next Tuesday. NPR's Allison Freeland reports.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on Bush and Gore briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington today. Bush attorneys say the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its authority in extending the deadline for counties to submit their vote totals. Gore attorneys say the US Supreme Court would overstep its authority to set aside the Florida court's interpretation of state law.

The ethically disputed practice of restoring damaged brain cells by using fetal nerve cells could soon become obsolete. New research indicates bone marrow cells may cause the same brain cell regeneration produced by fetal cells. This could bring new hope to victims of diseases that affect the nervous system, such as Huntington's Disease. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the efforts made by Joe Lieberman today to keep Democratic ranks on Capitol Hill solidly behind Al Gore's effort to contest the election. Yesterday's ruling by a Leon County circuit court judge was seen as devastating for Gore, but Lieberman's message to his fellow Democrats was to stay with the vice president until the Florida Supreme Court hands down its ruling.