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Scott talks with Father Bryan Hehir, Chief of the Executive Committee at Harvard Divinity School, about the role of religion in American politics. Father Hehir says the discussion of religion and politics in America is complicated, but that each can help inform the other.

A ruling by an Idaho jury may bankrupt the leader of this country's leading neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Nation. Andy Bowers reports from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times about the Toronto International Film Festival. Turan says the festival is timed just right as a preview for the fall movie season. Turan says movies like Pollock, about the abstract painter Jackson Pollock...and State of Maine, a satire about Hollywood coming to a small New England town, are something for movie-goers to look forward to.

Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush proposed today that low-income seniors receive prescription drugs for free. Bush also said that all seniors ought to have a choice of plans that would pay up at one fourth of their drug costs, either by government program or through private insurance. Steve Inskeep, traveling with the Bush campaign, filed this report for NPR News.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the Democrats' push to get their agenda acted on during these final weeks of the 106th Congress. Led by President Clinton, Senate Leader Tom Daschle and House Leader Richard Gephardt, the Democrats once again urged passage of an increase in the minimum wage and a patients' bill of rights. But both parties know that much of what is going on maybe less about legislation and more about gaining the electoral advantage as November 7 approaches.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the final weeks in this year's presidential election.

A jury in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho has found the leader of a white supremacist group, and his former employees are liable for more than 6-million dollars in an attack on a woman and her son outside the group's headquarters. The case involves Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, his former chief of staff and two security guards. Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers about the verdict and the lawsuit.

Germany is electing a new chancellor on Sunday to succeed Angela Merkel who's led the country for 16 years. A German expat went back to his home town to report on this pivotal election.

Laphonza Butler is the first Black woman to lead the pro-abortion rights group EMILY's List. The group has been criticized for historically not doing enough to support Black women in politics.

Overdose deaths from methamphetamines have tripled in the U.S. according to the latest data, all of which was gathered before the pandemic.