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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that the new Israeli transportation minister has announced plans to shut down one of Jerusalem's major thoroughfares during prayer hours on the Jewish Shabbat. The act has triggered concern among many Israelis that it is a sign of growing Jewish Orthodox power in Israel's new conservative government.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on New York city's experiment with 'workfare' - making welfare recipients work for their benefits. While perhaps a good idea for some, for others it forces them to choose between working at a dead-end minimum wage job or going to school to improve skills and employability.

of the last moments of the ill-fated Valujet flight that crashed into the Everglades last month.

The Supreme Court today struck down sections of the 1992 Cable Act that restricted indecent programs on certain cable channels. But it upheld another provision that allowed individual cable companies to refuse to air such programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

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Linda talks with U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Walter Carrington about the investigation into the killing of Nigeria opposition leader Moshood Abiola's (ma-SHOOD ah-bee-OH-la) wife. He says it was clearly an assassination, but the individuals involved...and the motive behind the killing...remain a mystery. Carrington says that the US and other countries should continue to try to bring the military government into line by enacting sanctions, but that events like this feed fears that Nigeria faces further instability.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on how Israel's new cabinet looks to be shaping up. Former generals like Ariel Sharon (shah-ROHN) and Raphael Eitan (AY-tahn) are vying for senior posts. But there's also talk of a national unity government that would join Labor and Likud... and shift the government closer to the center.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the current battle over the future of Medicare is a political one and does not address the real problems of its apparently imminent bankruptcy.

Excerpts from Robert Dole's campaign speech in Toledo, Ohio, twenty-four hours after he resigned his post in the Senate.

Yesterday's Virginia primary made for a Warner vs. Warner race for the U.S. Senate. Contests between candidates with the same last name are unusual...but not unheard-of. Robert takes a look at some other cases of same-name candidates running against one another.