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The Navy is suspending flights by a fighter squadron, following the crash of one of its F-14 jets in a Nashville Tennessee suburb. Five people died in the accident, including the two fliers aboard the plane. NPR's Martha Raddatz looks at what investigators have determined about the cause.

France's President Jacques Chirac on a state visit to Washington addressed a joint session of Congress and got his loudest applause when he spoke of his decision just this week to cease his nation's nuclear testing. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Commentator Ellen Ullman talks about the fear of becoming obsolete in the computer industry - an industry which changes at an incredibly rapid rate.

plans to withdraw its diplomats from Sudan. Sudan is upset with the U.S. decision, denying U.S. allegations that it can't protect U.S. personnel from terrorist threats.

Noah talks to the BBC's Chris Nuttal about a group of rebel Chechens who hijacked a Russian ship today in Turkey and are holding the passengers hostage.

Robert talks with journalist Tom Goltz about freedom-fighting Turks of Caucasian ancestry and the hostage crisis on the Black Sea. Chechens have taken 200 people hostage aboard a ferry boat and have threatened to blow the boat up once they reach Istanbul. Goltz spent the last four years in Turkey and the Caucasus and is writing a book about the wars in the post-Soviet Caucasus.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports a commission headed by former housing secretary Jack Kemp is recommending the current income tax system be replaced with a single rate system -- the so-called flat tax. The panel's recommendations come as the flat tax issue is a major topic of debate in the Republican presidential campaign.

This is a poem by Mark O'Brien called "Object of Desire". It is read by Tom Cole and Deborah Williams because O'Brien's vocal capabilities are restricted due to his reliance on an iron lung.

Hapa [HAH-puh] is the name of a band from Hawaii. It's made up of native Hawaiian who's part Chinese and a native New Yorker who's all Irish Catholic. Together they make music that ranges from traditional Hawaiian slack-key guitar to acoustic pop. Heidi Chang reports. There are two Hapa CD's available on the Coconut Grove label.

of a bill to overhaul the nation's telecommunications law. The overwhelming votes in the House and Senate came after months of lobbying and after Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole gave up his opposition.