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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on new data that supports a controversial theory that women who have elective abortions are at increased risk for getting breast cancer.

Comedian Will Durst sees the futility of getting real news out of a convention, but he loves the scene surrounding the whole event anyway.

The federal government's budget deficit was a big campaign issue four years ago, but this time around it seems to have faded, partly because both parties have taken balanced budget pledges, but also because the deficit is much smaller now. NPR's John Ydstie reports that budget experts say the deficit may be down, but it's not out.

After enduring a series of fiery campaign ads run by Steve Forbes and Bob Dole in last winter's primary, voters in Iowa have asked for a cleaner campaign this fall. Bill Menner from member station KUNI in Cedar Falls, Iowa reports that candidates---so far---are responding to the electorate and have produced ads based on issues, not on personal attacks.

NPR'S Kathy Lohr revisits the unsolved case of the Olympic Park bombing. Richard Jewell is pushing for federal officials to acknowledge they have ruled him out as a suspect; meanwhile, the Justice Department is searching for the source who leaked Jewell's name to the news media.

The FBI has arrested several members of a West Virginia militia group who federal officials accuse of planning to blow up the FBI fingerprint records facility outside Clarksburg, West Virginia. The facility houses the FBI's collection of fingerprints and other identification resources, which help state and local police identify crime suspects. NPR's Chitra Ragavan has a report on today's arrests.

with Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson tugging at the delegates' heart strings.

a forum for Catholics to discuss their differences with Rome within the Church. Since it's creation, the project has been criticized by both conservative and liberal Catholics.

Music reviewer Charles de Ledesma takes a look at the latest book from David Toop, one of the most erspected music journalists in Britain. Ocean of Sound and its accompanying CD trace the expansion of music around the globe in the twentieth century, and focus on how new technology and the concept of the "global village" have changed the things we listen to...from the ways in which we can listen to music to the ways we make music in the digital era. (8:00) (S

NPR is participating in a program along with other televesion and radio news outlets that provides free airtime to the Presidential campaigns of Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Tonight's message comes from Presidential challenger Bob Dole.