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NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg examines some of the cases that will be considered by the US Supreme Court, which begins it's new term today. A number of rulings could significantly alter the powers of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. And the Court could also redefine legal search and seizure.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from the closing of the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. After two weeks of spectacle, fierce competition, and scandal, the closing ceremonies end on an appropriately grand note.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco on Internet retailers' preparations for the Christmas shopping season. They expect on-line sales to be two-thirds higher than last year. And they're trying to prevent the problems that occurred last year, when websites began crashing; popular merchandise became scarce; and some presents weren't delivered in time.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about this week's upcoming presidential debates. With the candidates even in the polls, the debates could be critical in tipping the scales one way or the other.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Yugoslavia after the first full day of civil disobedience there. President Slobodan Milosevic remains in power, but there are newspaper reports that he may be offered asylum in Russia.

Fred Thys of member station WBUR reports on Green Party candidate Ralph Nader's New England campaign stops, which he is using to denounce his exclusion from the presidential debates.

An appeals court in Boston is preparing to hear a case that could give residents of Puerto Rico the right to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Such an outcome is considered a long shot, but Jason Beaubien reports that supporters believe the time has come to grant the island's citizens a place in the electoral college.

Eric Eldred started the online Eldritch Press to make available literature that had lapsed into the public domain, yet lacked the sales potential that would attract commercial publishers. Then Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, and many of the works he'd published came out of the public domain and back under copyright. Eldritch filed suit, claiming the act erodes the Constitution's demand for limited copyright terms and a robust public domain. Appellate arguments begin in August. NPR's Rick Karr has an advance look at the case.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports that the world of dot-com, dot-net and dot-org could give way to dot-xxx, dot-law and dot-kids. The international body responsible for managing Internet address names is entertaining proposals from 47 different organizations for new "top level domains," as they're called. The hope is that more choices will help avert some of the disputes that have erupted over ownership of valuable Internet names.

It's not unusual these days to do your banking at your local grocery store... and soon you may be able to get a fill-up as well. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on how supermarkets are hoping to boost profits by selling gasoline. Already, more than a hundred grocery-gas station combinations have been opened across the country. (