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Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Oklahoma City today to meet with survivors and relatives of victims of the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing. Ashcroft said he wanted to talk with the people about the calls from some of them for closed circuit television of the execution of bomber Timothy McVeigh. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

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President Bush is changing his approach to banning U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion related services overseas. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

The U.S. Senate is entering its second week of debate over how election campaigns are funded. Robert Siegel talks to David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, and David Brooks, senior editor at The Weekly Standard about the debate -- including tension between President Bush and Senator John McCain, and possible defections among Democrats who have supported reform in the past.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports a declining population has caused the state of Iowa to try to lure new workers. Many of the newcomers are from other countries, and the state has started to plan programs to deal with their needs. The immigrants are bringing new cultures to Iowa. Some people are unhappy about the changes.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on negotiations in the Senate over the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Today the focus was on raising the bill's limits on the amount of money individuals may contribute directly to candidates. There are still some landmines ahead for the bill before final passage is assured.

NPR's Eric Weiner in Jerusalem reports Israeli helicopter gunships attacked Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza today, in response to a string of Palestinian bomb attacks over the past few days.

NPR's Kate Seelye in Amman reports Arab leaders denounced Israel at the conclusion of a two-day summit conference in the Jordanian capital. The summit approved $240 million in new aid for the Palestinians. But the meeting failed to reach consensus on a demand by Iraq for an end to the United Nations economic sanctions that were imposed after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Commentator Brian Egerston and his wife are having trouble getting pregnant. After seeing a doctor and undergoing surgery -- still no baby. He says they've started to see babies everywhere. And relatives ask them when they will have kids.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports President Bush's foreign policy team is not fully cohesive yet. Several policy positions articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell have been out of line with those later adopted by the president.