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NPR's Don Gonyea reports about the many events which have occured today as the Gore and Bush camps battle in court over the Florida Presidential Election count. Early in the day, a Florida Distict judge decieded the Florida Secretary of State could certify the election results without including results from handcounts proceeding in some counties. Late in the day, the Fla. Supreme Court delayed such action.

For the recording industry, the development of the technology that allows music to be shared via the internet has turned out to have a sting in its tail. Many more people are listening - but they're not paying for the pleasure. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the industry's efforts to prevent unauthorized copying of its merchandize by using something called a 'digital watermark' - and the attempts by critics to shpow it doesn't work.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports President Clinton had separate meetings with the leaders of Russia and South Korea today, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in the oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei. Questions about the still unresolved U.S. presidential election followed Mr. Clinton to the summit. He urged everyone to follow the lead of the American people, and simply await the outcome.

The election of the next U.S. president has largely come down to the question of whether ballots in Florida may be recounted by hand. An official tally yesterday of certified results from across the state showed George W. Bush leading Al Gore by 300 votes. But at least two counties say they may want to revise their tallies after rechecking ballots by hand. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports a car bomb exploded in Jerusalem today just as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were preparing to make simultaneous public announcements about a new agreement aimed at ending the five weeks of clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the bombing.

NPR's David Kestenbaum is following the flight path of what appears to be an asteroid headed in the direction of Earth. Initial reports that it had a one in five-hundred chance of hitting Earth in 2030 appear to be wrong. Now it's a somewhat less frightening one in one thousand chance, in 2071. Nonetheless, it's the first celestial object with anything more than a one in some 10,000 chance of hitting Earth.

Fewer Americans have been flying in the period since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and that has idled much of the U.S. commercial airline fleet. Now, with the Bush administration moving closer to a confrontation with Iraq, the Pentagon may use a special program to enlist some of those unused aircraft as wartime transports. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

Jacky Rowland reports from Belgrade that riots which began in a Serbian prison on Sunday have spread to two more jails. Hundreds of inmates in Sremska Mitrovica, Pozarevac and Nis have set fires and revolted against their guards. They are demanding better conditions. They also want to be included in an amnesty the new authorities in Belgrade are considering for Kosovar Albanian political prisoners -- regardless of the nature of their crimes.

Katherine Perkins of member sation WOI reports on a controversial Iowa law that prohibits listed sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, making most small towns and communities out of bounds for them. The recent arrest of a man in violation of the law is likely to spark a court challenge.

More than a decade after the fall of communism, Russian consumers are beginning to learn about credit. In the early years of transition to capitalism, the economy mostly was cash only. Now, Russians are making the transition from paper to plastic. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.