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on the White House's acquisition of FBI background files. Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum took responsibility for the file transfer...but most of the hearing was spent grilling Craig Livingstone, the former Director of White House Personnel Security. Livingstone resigned from his post yesterday.

Linda talks with Governor Roy Romer of Colorado about plans to create a "virtual university." Romer and the governors of Arizona, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming yesterday signed a plan to develop the home-based higher education program, which will utilize computers as the primary teaching tool. Romer says the program is designed mostly for people in jobs and that the first catalogue will be put together over the next six months.

and preparations to bring the dead Americans back home from Saudi Arabia.

Robert talks with Lionel Barber of The Financial Times about the European Unions decision to ban British beef. Barber says this decision to ban a product is not UNprecedented, in fact there have been other bans imposed by the E-U in recent years.

Commentator George Berdes (BURR-diss) is a retired foreign policy analyst, living in Eagle River Wisconsin. He says it's no fun to be stereotyped as a senior citizen and tells the story about the time he walked into a restaurant and the "cute-young thing" behind the countertreated him as if he were deaf, dumb and blind.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the fighting in Lebanon and the prospects for diplomacy in solving the confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister says he will continue the shelling until Hezbollah stops its attacks, and other countries seem to be taking a wait-and-see attitude.

the last of the American troops is expected to leave Haiti today.

a regular season of the National Basketball Association. The Bulls set it by beating Milwaukee last night 86-80.

Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Howard Berkes about the release today of a list of items found in the cabin of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kasczynski. The list, released by a judge today in Helena, Montana, includes banal as well as highly suspicious items: a can of soldering wire, maps of Sacramento, California (site of one killing attributed to the Unabomber), a live bomb, a gun... It is now up to prosecutors to build a case with the help of this evidence. Kasczynski has yet to be charged with committing the Unabomber attacks.