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NPR's Beijing Correspondent Rob Gifford talks with host Lisa Simeone about today's mid-air collision between a U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese aircraft. The Chinese plane went down, and the pilot is missing. The U.S. plane made an emergency landing; all 24 members of the crew are reported safe.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade on the surrender and arrest early this morning of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

Poet Peter Balakian has a new book out, June-Tree: New and Selected Poems. Rebekkah Presson Mosby reports on Balakian's perennial concerns with history and his interpretation.

Israel has arrested several members of Yassar Arafat's elite Force 17 bodyguard unit, accusing them of carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians. On the West Bank today, funerals took place for two young victims of violence. NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Hebron.

Biden is taking the high-risk strategy of announcing a deal on domestic social spending though not all Democrats were ready to vote for it.

From member station WCPN in Cleveland, Janet Babin reports on the serious consequences of the latest U.S. Census for a small suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. (4:00) For more, check out NPR coverage of Census 2000.

With 100 mile-per-hour fastballs hurtling through the air, you might not always be thinking about how it feels to take one of those to the face.

Lawyer and satirist Kevin Underhill presents his new translation of Dante's epic Inferno. Read the translation.

Online hate the Duchess has faced was part of a targeted and coordinated campaign originating from just 83 Twitter accounts.

NPR's Eric Weiner in Jerusalem reports Israeli military authorities are questioning a scholar about a book he wrote on Israel's nuclear weapons program. Avner Cohen's book Israel and the Bomb was published three years ago in the United States after Israeli censors refused to allow its publication in Israel. Cohen, back in Israel on a visit, could face prosecution for violating the country's Military Secrets Act.