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NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on another blow to the tobacco industry today. A federal judge in North Carolina ruled that the Food and Drug Administration has legal jurisdiction to regulate tobacco sales and distribution. However, the judge sided with the tobacco industry when he ruled that the FDA jurisdiction did not extend to cigarette advertising and promotion. Tobacco companies plan to appeal the ruling.

The trial of Oklahoma bombing suspect began this week with opening statements by the prosecution and the defense. Scott speaks with NPR's Wade Goodwin, who's covering the trial.

in Taiwan. Instead of relying on donations like American parties, the ruling Kuomintang party owns over a hundred companies, from a bank to a movie studio. Political opponents claim the income from these enterprises allow the Kuomintang to unfairly dominate Taiwanese politics.

about trial of an army drill sergeant at the Aberdeen training center who is charged with several rapes and other sexual assaults. The prosecution is expected to rest its case Thursday.

international trade policy was clearly influenced by domestic political concerns on three occasions in 1995 and '96. Critics contend that the administration caved in to farmers and other domestic interest groups at the expense of American consumers.

in the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that the nearly three-year-long odyssey of Rwandan Hutu refugees is finally coming to a close, as the United Nations prepares to repatriate those who remain in Zaire. This refugee crisis has confounded the relief community and world powers since its inception. Among the two million Hutus who fled Rwanda in 1994 were many thousands who carried out the genocide against the country's Tutsi minority. While receiving foreign aid, these Hutus intimidated other refugees, terrorized Zairean Tutsis, and used their camps to re-arm and stage military raids against Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government.

Ray talks with NPR's Phillip Davis about the case against Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson, who is accused of raping 19 female trainees at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The prosecution rested today. Then a defense lawyer tried and failed to get most of the rape charges dismissed, saying the women had not tried to resist Simpson's advances.

Movie reviewer Bob Mondello talks about impossible movie geography... when an actor turns a corner and ends up in a different city, or the sun sets gently in the East. It's a commentary about how disorienting it all is... inspired by the idiocy of the newly-released film "Murder at 1600."

The government has too many secrets according to a report issued today by The Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy. The commission, chaired by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D-NY) says that the government's "culture of secrecy" hinders decision making and wastes billions of dollars each year. The panel says that new procedures aimed at reducing the number of classified documents will better protect the relatively few documents that are important to national security. NPR's Neal Conan reports.