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NPR's Peter Kenyon and Anthony Brooks report from the campaign trail. George W. Bush was in the Midwest, where he attacked Gore on character and leadership. Gore, campaigning across the South, blasted Bush's policy proposals and his record in Texas.

Amid the debates over welfare reform, many experts worried that in the push to find jobs for working mothers, their children might suffer. NPR's Emily Harris reports on new research that identifies elements of programs that actually produce benefits for children.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where several top government officials still loyal to ousted president Slobodan Milosevich stepped down yesterday. European nations are rushing to lift embargoes and reestablish ties with Yugoslavia's new government.

NPR's Melissa Block reports from Tallahassee where the Florida State Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday over the disputed hand recount of thousands of ballots. After listening to over an hour of oral arguments yesterday, the Court may release their ruling as early as today.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the campaign trail where both George W. Bush and Al Gore traveled to the West Coast yesterday. With the race close in Oregon, Washington, and California, Bush is threatening Gore in what are traditionally Democratic strongholds (4:26).

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Israeli city of Hebron, one of the areas most effected by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In an effort to protect the city's Jewish settlers, the army has imposed a 24-hour-a-day curfew on its Palestinian citizens.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Joseph Chamie, co-author of a population report released by the United Nations. The study found that the United States is the only major industrialized nation whose population will grow significantly over the next 50 years.

NPR's National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold reports that this year's Presidential election may be decided by a handful of states. In the final week before the election Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush takes his campaign to California as he continues to challenge Vice President Al Gore in states that are traditionally Democratic.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that Israel's parliament, the Knesset resumes its session today as Prime Minister Ehud Barak fights for his political survival. Barak has the support of only 30 percent of the 120 member Knesset and is trying to save his government by forming an alliance with opposition leader Ariel Sharon.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that a panel of Swedish and Russian historians today released the conclusions of a ten-year study on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg. He was the Swedish diplomat credited with saving thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest. He was later arrested by Soviet forces who captured Hungary from the Germans. The Swedish authors of the new study conclude that there is no hard evidence that Wallenberg died in the Soviet Union in 1947, as the Russians assert. The report questions whether Sweden did all it could to secure Wallenberg's release.