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Host Bob Edwards talks to with Steve Erlanger in Belgrade about the overnight news from Yugoslavia, where public celebrations continue after yesterday's storming of the capitol's Parliamentary buildings and President Milosevic's overthrow.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the strain the tight labor market is putting on some employers in highly competitive industries. With the unemployment rate at a three-decade low, companies are feeling a hiring crunch.

John Ridley protests an election system where drab conformity has become a required trait in the men running for office. He wonders when did the flash and sparkle go out of our candidates?

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on an election you may not be aware of, although its impact will stretch across all borders. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is holding on-line elections for its at-large board members. The group registers domain names, and settles disputes between competing claims. Their decisions will shape the next phase of the internet.

David D'Arcy reports on the current boom of movies about artists. And these aren't obscure art-house pieces; the trend is being led by the New York Film Festival. From Jackson Pollock to Cuban poets, the arts are getting their moment on screen.

NPR's David Welna reports on reaction to last night's Vice Presidential debate among a political science class at Chicago's Loyola University. The students stayed to talk about what swayed them in this debate, and what bored them.

The clearest area of agreement between the candidates is on the states that matter most in this election. A handful of populous states, most of them in the upper Midwest, appear to hold the balance of power between the parties in this year's race for the White House. Yesterday, both major party nominees were in Ohio. Today it was Michigan. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Misha Glenny about the latest developments in Belgrade. Opposition leaders are calling for the newly-elected parliament to begin meeting soon in an orderly transfer of power after yesterday's riots.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem where the militant Palestinian group the Hamas are calling for a "Day of Rage" to begin this morning in response to the week of violence that have left 69 people in Israel dead, most of them Palestinian.

Thousands of migrants are camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. AFP photographer Paul Ratje says he saw agents holding up leather straps used to control horses — as though to threaten people.