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Melanie Peeples of member station WUAL reports that the Justice Department has promised a thorough investigation of the burning of black churches in rural Alabama in Tennesse. While there is no evidence yet to indicate that the burning are racially motivated, eleven black churches throughout the south have been burned in the past two months, according to Klanwatch, a group that monitor's hate crimes.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russia is receiving a big investment from the West. Despite the uncertainty as the nation heads into the presidential election season, the International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend Moscow more than ten-billion-dollars.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer discuse the tendency of politicians, especially those now running for president, to refer to themselves in the third person. He then recreates some great lines in history with this locution.

NPR'S ELIZABETH ARNOLD REPORTS FROM YUMA, ARIZONA WHERE THE SURPRISE WINNER OF THIS WEEK'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, PAT BUCHANAN, IS CAMPAIGNING.

Supreme Court today that hinges on whether counseling sessions with a clinical social worker fall under confidentiality guidelines. A policewoman who shot and killed a suspect spent the following six months with a counselor, but the family of the suspect sought to have details of those meetings admitted in court.

campaign, the forgotten Contract with America, and the meaning for the Whitehouse of events over the weekend.

Alex Chadwick visits a remote part of Glacier National Park, where wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has been studying gray wolves for the past 17 years. Her subjects moved into the area on their own, unlike the ones which have been reintroduced to Yellowstone.

Linda talks with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican congresswoman from Miami. She says Clinton's measures don't go far enough in response to Cuba's provocation.

battle for the hearts and minds of the Republicans voters.

Robert talks with opera singer Cecilia Bartoli [chuh-CHEE-lee-ah BAR-toe-lee) This month she has made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in "Cosi Fan Tutte," in the role of Despina, a part she says is perfect for her, both to sing and to act. She is a devotee of the 18th and early 19th century repertoire -- Mozart and Rossini, for example.