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NPR's Tovia Smith reports on one of the ballot questions facing the people of Massachusetts this election: whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote. Inmate advocates say taking the vote away from incarcerated felons is excessively punitive and racially discriminatory.

There were toes tapping and heads nodding in Louisville, Kentucky, last night when the city played host to the Bluegrass music awards. The Del McCoury Band and Dolly Parton both took home top awards. The event isn't televised, but is broadcast live in more than 3,000 U.S. radio markets.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan in Cairo, where Arab foreign ministers have been meeting prior to this week's Arab heads-of-state summit, the first since 1996.

After overthrowing dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan's joint civilian-military transitional government seemed to be stabilizing the nation. Monday's coup took American officials by surprise.

Commentator Russell Roberts tries his hand at translating the economic mumbo-jumbo which both candidates are using.

Commentator David Shenk says a major study released today from the University of California in Berkeley aims for the impossible: to quantify how much information the world produces each year. That includes everything in a year's worth of e-mails, phone calls, radio and television broadcasts, Websites, office documents, newspapers, memos, etc. The number is so big that U.C. is coming close to the extreme end of terms that have been invented to measure such volume. (3:00) See the study at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/

Scott speaks with veteran actress Maureen O'Hara about her career and upcoming CBS television movie The Last Dance.

Host Lisa Simeone visits three cities in the state of Kentucky, one of several swing states in this years election to talks to voters about the Presidential election. She talks with voters in Louisville, Lexington and Campbellsville, Kentucky.

When the heat gets too close, every mobster has a hideout. Chicago's Al Capone had plenty. Now one of Capone's get-aways is up for auction, with bids coming in from around the world. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on her meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il; Israeli government spokesman Aria Meckel and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Edward Walker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the terrorist attack on the USS Cole; President Bill Clinton and John Doyle, spokesman for the American Beverage Institute, on the new law that requires states to lower the blood alcohol level for drivers to .08 blood alcohol concentration; Fox TV coverage of games 2 and 5 of the 2000 World Series.