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companies from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, has been given a green light by the Justice Deaprtment. The companies claim the deal will allow them to improve their services and move into new fields like video, but consumer groups think the merger will reduce competition and raise prices.

across the country are on high alert...they are guarding against any possible attacks April 19 -- the anniversary of the Federal raid in Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Commentator Leslie Lang is getting to know her Hawaiian great grandmother from sifting through a lifetime of her things, and by reading her journals. The writings reflect a long life, lived well. Lang is now keeping a journal of her own which she hopes some descendent not yet born will someday read.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that the L.A. Police Commission is scheduled to vote soon on whether to authorize LAPD officers to carry more powerful weapons. The move comes in the wake of last Friday's shootout between heavily armed bank robbers and the police. Police have complained they've long been outgunned by well-trained, well-armed bad guys.

The Henrietta Marie was a slave ship that sank in the Florida straits in the 18th century. The remains make up a travelling exhibit, which is teaching people about the slave trade. NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from Miami.

Dan Gunderson of Minnesota Public Radio reports the Red River is expected to crest in Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota by tomorrow. The river burst throught a stretch of dikes in Fargo last night, inundating an entire neighborhood. The Red Cross is expected to declare the disaster along the Red River a Level 5 emergency, its most serious designation.

NPR's Richard Harris looks at a controversial new study that suggests there may be an up and down in the universe, after all. Until now, physicists and astronomers have based their theories on the idea that there is NO directionality in the universe -- that it is spread out evenly. But the new report analyzed radio waves from 160 distant galaxies and concludes that there is a kind of north-south axis in the universe.

Scott speaks with Grand Forks, North Dakota's fire captain, Vince Liddy, about the flooding in his town.

With passover only a day away, NPR's Joe Palca gives us the low down on why bread rises. And he explains the difference between leavened and unleavened bread.

"Due to economic and structural obstacles" in LaLiga regulations, Messi will depart less than a month after making a verbal agreement on a 5-year deal, the club said in a statement.