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The Democratic National Convention will approve the party platform tonight. While pundits often dismiss platforms for placing platitudes over policy, political scientists say the documents do tell us where the parties are headed. NPR's Steve Inskeep compares the Democratic and Republican platforms.

The Clinton administration has mounted an intensive campaign to win U.S. Senate approval of the International Chemical Weapons Convention. But a small, determined group of Senators and lobbyists have successfully blocked the treaty...for now. NPR's Ted Clark reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the Senate Judiciary Committee's final disposition of the John Ashcroft nomination to be Attorney General. Today President Bush protested the delay in approving Ashcroft, who has come under fire from civil rights, gun-control and feminist organizations.

In the biggest land conservation act in decades, president Clinton has this afternoon approved an order putting nearly a third of the national forest land permanently off limits to road building and logging. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Senate is expected to approve John Ashcroft for attorney general. Republicans are lining up behind him in support, and they're being joined by a small number of Democrats.

Eric Engleman reports that Russia's Parliament is expected to approve a plan to import nuclear waste and reprocess it. While Russia could earn billions through the program, it has environmentalists very upset.

The Senate has approved federal judge Michael Chertoff head the Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff's confirmation was never in doubt; members of both parties praised him throughout confirmation hearings.

Researchers with the Boulder Atomic Clock Optical Network Collaboration are one step closer to replacing the current atomic clock and officially redefining the second.

The 10 winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize honors emerging writers, with the hope of allowing them to concentrate full-time on their work.

Yet another doping scandal casts a shadow over the famous race as cyclists head toward a Sunday finish in Paris. In a 24-hour period, 3 more riders were dismissed from the race on charges of using banned substances.