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Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush is in New York tonight for a political dinner where the guests will also include his rival, Democrat Al Gore. He will also tape an appearance with late night comedian David Letterman. But this morning Bush began his day in Michigan, a key swing state where he talked to workers at an engineering plant. He told them Gore represented old style thinking about economics and government. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on Al Gore's tough battle in his home state. Though he's a favorite son, many Tennessee voters consider Gore an outsider. Polls show a tight race between the former Tennessee Senator and George W. Bush.

NPR's Michele Kelemen takes a tour of Moscow's newest cultural attraction, the Outsider Art Museum. The collection features the works of self-taught artists, many of whom suffer from mental illness or are homeless.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on one of the ballot questions facing the people of Massachusetts this election: whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote. Inmate advocates say taking the vote away from incarcerated felons is excessively punitive and racially discriminatory.

There were toes tapping and heads nodding in Louisville, Kentucky, last night when the city played host to the Bluegrass music awards. The Del McCoury Band and Dolly Parton both took home top awards. The event isn't televised, but is broadcast live in more than 3,000 U.S. radio markets.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan in Cairo, where Arab foreign ministers have been meeting prior to this week's Arab heads-of-state summit, the first since 1996.

After overthrowing dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan's joint civilian-military transitional government seemed to be stabilizing the nation. Monday's coup took American officials by surprise.

Commentator Russell Roberts tries his hand at translating the economic mumbo-jumbo which both candidates are using.

Commentator David Shenk says a major study released today from the University of California in Berkeley aims for the impossible: to quantify how much information the world produces each year. That includes everything in a year's worth of e-mails, phone calls, radio and television broadcasts, Websites, office documents, newspapers, memos, etc. The number is so big that U.C. is coming close to the extreme end of terms that have been invented to measure such volume. (3:00) See the study at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/

Scott speaks with veteran actress Maureen O'Hara about her career and upcoming CBS television movie The Last Dance.