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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.

Special Counsel John Danforth says the government did not cause the deaths of 80 members of the Branch Davidians in their compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. Danforth has released an interim report that says government agents did not start the fire, did not shoot at the Davidians, did not improperly use the military and did not engage in a major cover-up. He does say the government was slow to give some information, but when it finally did, that information did not indicate wrongdoing. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from the campaign trail as presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush begin the final leg of the race. Both are reacting to each other's performance in Tuesday's debate...Gore highlighting Bush's refusal to answer questions about his tax plan...and Bush accusing Gore of trying to expand the federal government.

Host Renee Montagne talks to reporter Jon Miller about the latest developments in Peru. Yesterday a group of soldiers staged a revolt seizing a southern mine and taking five hostages including an army general. Ever since the release of a video showing spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos apparently bribing an opposition member of congress, Peru has been embroiled in turmoil.