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This week, Illinois lawmakers wrapped up the work of the 101st General Assembly. And there is a new House Speaker - Chris Welch - after Michael Madigan...

Over the next few months, the city of New York plans to extend the citywide ban on smoking in public areas and places of employment to its jails. Linda talks with Tom Antenen, the deputy commissioner of the New York City Corrections Department, about the effect this will have on inmates at New York's Riker's Island facility, which houses some eighty percent of the city's prison population.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson and national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about this week's developments on the campaign trail. President Clinton travelled to California and Colorado to campaign and raise funds. Republican Bob Dole traveled to Pennsylvania where he talked about special tax breaks and other measures to help small businesses. (6:00) (IN S

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation are in Saudi Arabia to gather information about the bombing of the U.S. military housing complex in Dharan that killed 19 Americans. There were initial reports from Saudi officials that the car used in the bombing may have been recovered, but U.S. officials doubt the getaway car has been found.

Noah talks with NPR's Martha Raddatz about the latest developments with regard to Iraq. The White House has reported that Iraqi troops have not withdrawn from their positions in northern Iraq...an area which has been designated as a safe haven by the United Nations for the Kurdish peoples who live there. They'll discuss what's happening, and the timeline for an American response to this latest show of strength by Saddam Hussein.

of Mideast leaders at the White House yesterday. There was little indication that any progress was being made to ease the tensions caused by last week's violence in the West Bank and Gaza.

Ted Clark reports from Washington that though the new Congressional bill mandating sanctions against those doing business with Libya and Iran was passed overhelmingly and will be signed by President Clinton, there are many aspects of the bill that trouble the White House and some in Congress. The fact is, this effort to legislate punitive damages to citizens of third party states in a dispute is one sure to be opposed by our allies.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that on this opening day of the Democratic National Convention, party liberals are generally keeping a low profile. They are focused on getting Clinton re-elected and, more importantly to some, regaining control of the House and Senate. But there are still divisions among Democrats over the party's direction, with Clinton's recent signing of the the welfare bill angering many liberal Democrats.

Republican presidential contender Bob Dole was finishing up a two-day Southern campaign swing today with stops in Louisiana and Tennessee. He continued to promote his tax-cut proposals and criticized the White House for trying to scare voters into believing that he would cut Medicare and Social Security to provide tax breaks. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the center of controversy in today's report released by teh Senate Whitewater committee. The Republicans' report says she and White House aides showed a pattern of concealment and obstruction that continues to this day. Democrats say the investigation found no wrongdoing on her part. But never before in history has a congressional committee taken on a First Lady so directly.