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FBI Director Louis Freeh released an internal report today that was strongly critical of both the White House and the FBI for releasing FBI background files on 408 people to members of the Clinton administration in 1993. The files contained information about employees of the Bush White House, and included a number of well-known Republicans as well as members of the White House travel office. The White House announced today that it will reform its procedure for requesting FBI data on individuals, and will require the permission of the subject as well as the White House counsel's office in most cases. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

An audio postcard from NPR's Melissa Block in New York, who stumbled upon a movie set in New York, without realizing it...

- Tom speaks with 74-year old Russell Bonasso who just graduated from West Virginia's Fairmont State College. Bonasso got his bachelor's degree 58 years after he graduated from high school. His educational goals were delayed so he could put his 12 children through college.

- Jazz great Ella Fitzergald - America's "First Lady of Song" - died today. She was 78 years old. Fitzgerald had been in declining health for years. Howard Mandel (Howard MAN-duhl) reports.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that Boris Yeltsin and the rebel leader in Chechnya have agreed to a ceasefire beginning Saturday in the 17 month-old war. It was not clear whether the Russian military would observe the ceasefire, and the thorniest issue -- the question of Chechen independence -- was put on the back burner.

NPR's Vicky Que reports on residents from Evansville, Indiana, who are up in arms over the government's new weather-forecasting equipment which was recently installed there. They claim that the new, state-of-the-art Doppler Radar designed to help warn residents of dangerous storms has completely missed several which have swept through the town in recent months, and they'd like the old equipment back.

Robert Siegel probes the political views of the Margalit (MARR-gah-leet) family, which generally supports politicians who hold the leftist point of view. For them, peace is the over-riding issue upon which their decision is made, and they approve of the effort which has been made to deal with the Palestinians.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on tomorrow's election in Albania.

- NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists have discovered that fire ants communicate by using sound. Robert Hickling at the University of Mississipi has been recording fire ants in several conditions and has distinguished many sounds that the fire ants make with their bodies.

A divided Supreme Court struck down four redesigned Congressional districts today in Texas and North Carolina. The districts are all predominantly black or Hispanic. The decision continues a trend in the Court since 1993 to disallow electoral districts that were drawn to create racial majorities. In today's ruling, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reiterated that districts cannot be drawn up with race as the primary criterion, but also said that it does NOT mean that states can never design predominantly minority districts. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.