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The University of Michigan has levied a post-season ban on its men's basketball program for 2003. This action comes after the university acknowledged payoffs by a major booster to star players in the 1990s. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

The allies' World War II invasion of Algeria and Morocco began 60 years ago today. Author Rick Atkinson has written about the North Africa campaign in An Army at Dawn. He speaks with NPR's Bob Edwards.

The former president is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, as well as the National Archives, to prevent the turnover of documents related to the event.

A grassroots movement elects Dave Nash mayor of Dennison, Minnesota. Let's hope he takes the job.

The state of Virginia will have first chance to try sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17. Meanwhile, ballistics tests now link the sniper suspects to a Sept. 21 shooting in Atlanta. Hear NPR's Larry Abramson and Joshua Levs.

The Communist Party Congress opens in Beijing. It's expected to produce a new generation of leaders for the world's most populous nation, and to make changes in China's constitution. Hear more from NPR's Bob Edwards and NPR's Rob Gifford.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is completing his first year in office as the city rebounds from the Sept. 11 attacks, copes with a slumbering economy and confronts a proposal to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. The mayor speaks with NPR's Bob Edwards.

Catholic bishops are gathering in Washington, D.C., to vote on a policy on priests who sexually abuse children. The latest draft includes revisions by the Vatican. Survivors of abuse say the revisions will make it harder for the bishops to fight abuse. Commentator Hugh Burns, a Catholic priest, says bishops who assigned pedophilic priests to their parishes should be held just as responsible for sexual abuse as the priests themselves.

An international public opinion poll shows a dramatic lack in trust of democratic institutions and international companies. The first Voice of the People survey, which polled 36,000 people in 47 countries, also finds a lack of trust in trade unions and media organizations. Hear Doug Miller, who helped design the poll.

Three candidates emerge to replace Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) as House minority leader. Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) joins congressional veterans Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). NPR's Bob Edwards discusses Democratic leadership with professor Jack Pitney of California's Claremont McKenna College.