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President Clinton sent Congress a one-point-69 trillion dollar budget proposal today, which he says will lead to a balanced budget in 2002. The President also said the spending plan will create surpluses to carry the country through the baby boomer retirement years. The House and Senate Budget committee chairmen say the overall proposal is not bad, but is not bold enough, and would not balance the budget by 2002 as Mr. Clinton claims it would. NPR's Brian Naylor has a report.

Mike Shuster reports on the explosion of TWA Flight 800 which went down last night in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, N.Y. killing all on board. More than 100 bodies have been recovered from the waters off Long Island. 228 people were on board. The National Transportation and Safety Board is heading the investigation btu the F-B-I is involved and would assume control if it were determined that the plane's destruction were the result of a criminal act.

Linda talks with NPR's Joe Neel, who's covering the AIDS conference in Vancouver. The conference ends today, with more promising news about new treatments. Researchers report that studies evaluating combinations of anti-AIDS drugs continue to indicate that the approach can suppress the virus to levels that can't be detected. One researcher even went so far to suggest that it may be possible to discontinue the treatment after three years.

Russian voters go to the polls to choose a president on Sunday, June 16th. The two front-runners are President Boris Yeltsin and the leader of the Communists, Gennady Zyuganov ((gen-NAH-dee zyoo-GAHN-off)). Neither is expected to win outright and will probably face each other in a run-off July 7th. NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on the media campaign each candidate is waging...a campaign in which Yeltsin has a big advantage.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the continuing effort by defense attorneys to suppress evidence gathered by investigators in the first two days after the Oklahoma City bombing. Defendant Terry Nichols's attorney is arguing that a nine-hour interrogation of his client in a Kansas jailhouse was improper and should be thrown out. Testimony today focuses on whether authorities had authority to search Nichols's home, where an agent spotted plastic barrels similar to ones used in the bombing.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on the political maneuvering between presidential candidates Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov. Yeltsin has decided to not meet President Clinton in France next week as part of the annual economic summit of the G-7 group of industrialized nations. And, Yeltsin got a boost today from another candidate he defeated last Sunday. Ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky today told his supporters to not vote for the communists in next month's run-off.

Smog season in Los Angeles, where the air is dirtier than in any other city, is approaching. But as NPR's Mandalit DelBarco reports, L.A. has achieved huge reductions in air pollution over the past two decades, despite the city's reputation for lung-searing smog. Though new kinds of gas, cleaner industry and better cars are part of the solution, lots of little things have helped as well--like cleaner backyard barbecues.

Melissa Block reports on what's known about the causes of the crash of TWA Flight 800. The National Transportation and Safety Board is currently in charge of the investigation. As long as the NTSB is running the investigation the assumption is this is an accident. But the FBI will take over the investigation if it is determined that the explosion of the plane was the result of foul play. Tons of wrechage have been brought ashore for use in determiing this but thus far, the plane's voice and data recorders have yet to be found. Rough weather is hampering efforts to recover more wreckage.

President Clinton met with Republican leaders at the White House today, in an effort to push his proposals to strengthen national anti-terrorism laws. Yesterday, the President asked Congress to reconsider a controversial proposal to expand the FBI's wiretapping powers. NPR's John Nielson reports. (5:00) 2. ATLANTA NEWS - IN Atlanta, three days after a pipe bomb exploded--killing one person and injurying more than a hundred--gates to the 21 acre downtown park will reopen. TAPE/COPY

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that today the Federal Communications Commission is issuing new rules intended to make local phone service more competitive. The unanimous F-C-C vote completes an overhaul that opens the local marketplace to long distance and cable T-V companies as well as other competitors. About a dozen states are working to get competitors into their local phone businesses to go head to head with the regional Bell companies. The so-called Baby Bells have had a lock on the market until now.