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NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Colombo, Sri Lanka on the upcoming parliamentary elections there. Many view the election as a chance for the public to weigh in on the current President's plan to rewrite Sri Lanka's constitution in an effort to end the island's civil war.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush about his life on the campaign trail. For an extended version of this interview, click here.

The presidential candidates prepare for this week's debate against the background of a changed landscape in the campaign. George W. Bush has pulled well ahead in some polls and his running mate Dick Cheney scored well in his only encounter with Democrat Joe Lieberman. NPR's Cokie Roberts talks with host Bob Edwards.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to writer Nasdijj about his new memoir, The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams. Nasdijj, born on a Navajo Reservation in 1950, writes essays in this book that tell of his life growing up as the child of migrant workers, one white and one Navajo. The book also explores his bouts with homelessness, the people he met along the way, and the loss of his adopted son, who suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome.

The Unit 5 school district was supposed to be considering deficit reduction measures this fall, but has pushed that off until the spring. Two superintendents and at least three board presidents have avoided dealing with a structural imbalance that now stands at $13 million.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Israel where Prime Minister Ehud Barak bowed to pressure from world leaders and postponed his threat of full military engagement in the on-going conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The riots that began 12 days ago and escalated in gun-battles and mob violence that have left at least 88 dead and thousands wounded. (

NPR's Julie McCarthy in London reports on the European Union decision to lift sanctions against Yugoslavia, now that Slobodan Milosevic is no longer in charge.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on a study that shows fewer people are falling victim to gunshot wounds during the commission of crimes. The Justice Department says the number of gunshot wounds fell almost 40 percent from 1993 and 1997. Experts credit a number of factors, including the aging of the population and longer prison sentences for violent criminals.

Jury deliberations resumed today in federal court in Louisiana in an insurance fraud trial involving former Governor Edwin Edwards. Edwards, the State Insurance Commission, Jim Brown, and a lawyer are accused of corruption and witness tampering. The three are alleged to have created a favorable settlement in 1996 for the owner of a failed insurance company. Earlier this year, Edwards was convicted in an unrelated racketeering case involving the licensing of riverboat casinos. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at Jerusalem's Hebrew University about the violent clashes spreading from the troubled areas of Gaza and the West Bank into the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.