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Marketplace's Bob Moon talks to Alex Chadwick about a federal appeals court ruling that throws out current SUV emissions standards and orders a tougher plan. Automakers complain that they've been developing future cars based on the current standard.

Melissa Block talks with Don Gonyea as polls close in Ohio.

has joined a Chicago suburb in opposing a lawsuit which contends that private contractors who work for the government should have the same protection from political hiring and firing as do many public employees. He's asking the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 ruling that declared the state's political patronage system unconstitutional.

being put into place for the Summer Olympic Games. A huge force will provide protection for athletes, official, and visitors. It includes 15-hundred members of the Atlanta Police Department, 600 officers from the State of Georgia, a private security force numbering several thousand, and a large number of federal agents.

on the White House's acquisition of FBI background files. Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum took responsibility for the file transfer...but most of the hearing was spent grilling Craig Livingstone, the former Director of White House Personnel Security. Livingstone resigned from his post yesterday.

to stop the wave of arson striking black churches across the South. Yesterday,President Clinton hosted governors from seven Southern States to discuss the matter. And both houses in Congress are moving to make it easier to prosecute those who set churches on fire.

, following publication in the December issue of >Penthouse Magazine of a feature story alleging that Episcopal priests took part in homosexual orgies in a Brooklyn, New York Episcopal Church. One parish priest and an official with the national church already have resigned.

marked her 33rd birthday by giving her first solo press conference. The multi-lingual, Harvard-educated princess usually speaks only when accompanied by her husband. The princess did not discuss the questions that's on everybody's mind... when will the couple produce a male heir to the throne?

between the big-3 carmakers to accelerate research into "smart" airbags. The new systems, tentatively planned to be installed starting in 1999, would use sensors to tell the airbag how fast and with how much force to deploy. Public hearings on airbag safety will be held today in Washington.

is causing problems for local telephone companies, and their customers. The telephone networks were designed for relatively short voice communication, not the lengthy data transfers common on the internet. The local phone companies have complained to the FCC that the internet access providers should be treated just like long-distance carriers.