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Voters in Oregon and Colorado, this November, will be able to vote on nearly identical ballot measures. The measures would close the so-called gun show loophole. Both states have been considered friendly to gun rights. Even so, the measures are getting nearly 80% support in the polls. Colorado Public Radio's Kelley Griffin reports.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from the port city Norfolk, Virginia in wake of a bombing attack Thursday in Yemen of the Navy destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, which left 17 crew members dead or missing and 39 people injured.

Members of the liberal wing of the Democratic party are staking claim that they won't be ignored this Presidential election season. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Host Lisa Simeone visits Southway Bowling Lanes, a neighborhood duckpin bowling alley in South Baltimore, which closes later this month. Lisa talks to Southway manager Alva Brown, who's worked there for 42 years, and Pat Turner, the developer who will remodel the property after October 31st.

In a week of turmoil, the politics as usual that make up the U.S. presidential campaign took a rest. Vice President Gore returned to Washington while Governor Bush began to incorporate the international tensions into his campaign rhetoric. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

A former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Saudi-born dissident Osama Bin Laden to bomb two American embassies in Africa. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian native, is among seventeen people indicted for the attacks on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 220 people in 1998. Appearing in federal court in New York City, Mohamed admitted to working with the organization known as Islamic Jihad to attack Western targets. Mohamed left the U.S. Army in 1989.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on new information about the safety of P.P.A., the main ingredient in many cold remedies and appetite suppressants. On Thursday, advisors to the Food and Drug Administration declared P.P.A. unsafe, based on a new study showing young women who take these medications have a higher-than-normal risk of stroke. The FDA usually goes along with such recommendations, though some experts say that the study isn't conclusive and that more research is needed before banning P.P.A.

Noah talks with Stephanie Hobbs, spokeswoman for Verizon Communications, about new telephone directories allowing customers to offer more information about themselves than just a name and address. Customers will now have the option of listing e-mail and Web page addresses too.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that a French appeals court ruled today that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi can be prosecuted in France for complicity in the 1989 destruction of a French airliner over Niger. One-hundred-seventy people died in the terrorist attack. The ruling could expand the reach of international criminal law. The French state prosecutor had argued against this ruling, stating that Gaddafi enjoys what is known as "sovereign immunity," which protects a head of state from prosecution for acts performed while in office. But the French court -- citing as precedent the case of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in Britain -- ruled that the notion of sovereign immunity does not extend to charges of ordering the bombing of an airliner.

In today's installment from the Lost & Found Sound series we hear the music of the Grateful Dead re-invented in the studio by the a cappella soul singers, The Persuasions. Their new CD, Might as Well... The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead, has just been released. (12:30)Might As Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead is distributed by BMG and Arista. Find out more at: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/001020.stories.html