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Board of elections official finds thin evidence for coordination claims, unclear state law.

If successful, Trump's move would install a loyalist at the helm of the network. A U.S. judge found Trump appointees illegally violated Voice of America's journalistic independence in his first term.

Backers of a petition aimed at getting a referendum question before Normal voters in November appear headed to court after an electoral board found the petition to be legally invalid.

Unocal's shareholders approve sale of the company to rival Chevron. The transaction was overshadowed by a failed bid for Unocal by a Chinese energy company.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Nick Melvoin, one of two recently elected board members to the Los Angeles Unified School District, about the board's new majority as pro-charter schools.

Robert talks to Larry Jackson, a project engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board, who helped reconstruct TWA Flight 800 from pieces found in the ocean after the crash. The reconstructed plane is now in a hangar in Calverton, New York, waiting to be moved to an academy where it will be used to train crash investigators.

Liane Hansen gauges the reaction around the country to the GOP convention, speaking with Mike Jacobs, editor of the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota; Mitch McKenney, Political Editor from the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal; and Kate Nelson, columnist and Editorial Board member from the Albuquerque, New Mexico Tribune.

The only video of the Navy crew boarding the plane that took them off Hainan Island last night was on CNN. The video crew sent its pictures using a videophone together with a satellite phone powered by a car battery. Linda Wertheimer talks with Eason Jordan, chief news executive and newsgathering president for CNN in Atlanta.

In Kansas, debate continues over how and whether to teach evolution in schools. The state Board of Education appears likely to adopt a proposal to change the state's science standards to accommodate proponents of a new creationist movement.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington on international efforts to mediate an end to the anarchy that has swept Albania. The efforts were being made by mediators on board an Italian ship in the Adriatic, as the Pentagon prepared to take new measures to defend its airlifts of civilians from Albania. Earlier today, a missile was fired at a US helicopter.