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Many remember the record-breaking heat wave that Oregon had over the summer. Now the state will be seeing another, but this time in the water.

House GOP leaders push for a close to this week's post-election lame-duck session, despite unfinished business on terrorism insurance and unemployment benefits. NPR's David Welna reports.

As opposition forces make gains in the key coastal city of Zawiya, Moammar Gadhafi's forces are battling back, trying to prevent a full rebel takeover. With more fighting expected, many civilians are fleeing the country's Mediterranean coast.

As opposition forces make gains in the key coastal city of Zawiya, Moammar Gadhafi's forces are battling back, trying to prevent a full rebel takeover. With more fighting expected, many civilians are fleeing the country's Mediterranean coast.

A local artist is turning the mountains of plastic garbage that wash up on beaches into dramatic sculptures of the very marine life threatened by the deluge of plastics.

"How do our children get treated fairly in the schools, how do they not get suspended and expelled at disproportionate rates, how are our families…

Highlighting the difficulties of being a working mom, Democratic Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks of Oakland had to bring her 4-week-old daughter to the midnight end of the legislative session.

On the aching Dunya, the artist stands at an east-west crossroads, trying to resolve a young striver's years of trauma with a folklorist's drive to preserve what's left.

Liane Hansen talks to Eliza Gilkyson about her new CD, Lost and Found. Gilkyson has spent 30 years in the music business, and the CD reflects her long experience as a songwriter. There is a song written for her father, who was also a songwriter, and the album closes with a hymn-like piece, "Riverside," that reflects the turn of the millennium and Sept. 11. (7:30) The CD is on Red House Records. Catalog # RHR CD 162. See http://www.elizagilkyson.com/.

As the Senate debated the Iraq war in a rare around-the-clock session, the rarity of the all-night session is striking. And the debate was a sober one, showing increasing discontent with the war.