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KENNEDY - Presidential politics have stalled legislation aimed at guaranteeing that workers can keep their health coverage when they lose or leave jobs. The fight is over a controversial provision that would allow workers to create medical savings accounts instead of insurance. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Noah talks with David Moore of the Gallup Poll, about a new poll called the Referendum Poll -- a look at what America thinks, six months before the presidential election.

A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Michael Wiseman, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin. He has also been an advisor on welfare to Gov. Thompson of Wisconsin and Gov. Wilson of California. He explains what the Wisconsin reform plan is and how it might work on a national level.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that GOP presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole met today on Capitol Hill with billionaire Steve Forbes to talk about taxes. Dole says he plans to make a proposal soon on reforming the current tax system, but he said he has yet to work out the details. Forbes' campaign against Dole in the GOP presidential primaries centered on replacing the current tax system with a seventeen percent flat tax.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren tells the story of living with an unmarried couple for a year...while she was recovering from a bad divorce. This experience taught her to appreciate "non-traditional" families and to respect partnerships based on genuine love.

at the NAACP's annual convention in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday. Many delegates expressed disappointment that Republican candidate Bob Dole declined an invitation to speak.

A court translator reads from the international arrest warrants issued today by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Radovan Karadzic (RAH-doh-vahn KARE-uh-jitch) and General Ratko Mladic (RAHT-koh MLAH-ditch).

Commentator David Crystal says we are obsessed with naming the world around us...and the names we choose reflect something about us.

Renee Montagne explores how the country's affluent, mostly white, communities are responding to the increase in violent crime...