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Ukraine's parliament passes a compromise deal between the government and opposition leaders, overhauling election laws in time for a second runoff election Dec. 26. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Tonight's presidential debate format calls for the moderator, Charles Gibson of ABC News, to ask the candidates questions submitted by an audience of undecided voters, who were hand picked by the Gallup organization. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, about how audience members were selected.

Asked whether immigrants need to believe in God in order to be fully American, a majority of both native-born Americans and immigrants say no. But twice as many immigrants as non-immigrants say yes (immigrants and non-immigrants are equally religious themselves). How religious is America, and how tolerant is it of non-believers? NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews two new television documentaries about the world of hip-hop, both produced by music mogul Russell Simmons. VH1's And You Don't Stop and Court TV's Hip-Hop Justice are set to air Wednesday night.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about recent legal difficulties for Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage lender. Company executives appear before Congress Wednesday to defend their accounting methods.

The closure of a major flu vaccine manufacturer will cause major shortages during the upcoming flu season, say health officials. Before its license was suspended, the Chiron Corp. intended to ship 48 million doses of flu vaccine to the United States. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Commentator Cornel West has been monitoring the role that African-American churches might play in this presidential election, and how Republicans are becoming more encouraged.

At Tuesday's vice presidential debate, both Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards stretched, muddled, and sometimes mangled the truth. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

President Bush will fill any Supreme Court vacancies in his second term, and it appears that he will at least be naming a successor to ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for The National Review, and Slate editor Jacob Weisberg offer their analysis of election results.

Last weekend in Orlando, Fla., Sen. John Kerry gave a speech on the middle class. Hear an excerpt from that speech as part of a series of excerpts from the presidential candidates' speeches to be broadcast in the weeks before the election.

Right after the Sept. 11 attacks, most Americans thought the United States was letting in too many immigrants. But that has changed. We discuss some surprising results from a new poll on immigration.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to NPR's Ira Flatow for an update on recent developments in the NASA space shuttle program. The shuttles have been grounded since the Columbia shuttle broke up during re-entry over Texas more than a year ago.

Admonished by the House Ethics Committee for the second time in a week, Rep. Tom DeLay responds by thanking the committee for "dismissing" the charges against him. While one charge was deferred, none were dismissed. DeLay offered no explanation of his response. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Scientists in Monterey Bay, Calif., found a seldom-seen species of dragonfish swimming nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

NPR's Alex Chadwick checks in with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the supporting role of lawyers in this election, and the looming possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy.

Only 16 U.S. presidents have been elected to a second term, and not all of those have gone well: Witness Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra debacle and Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal. On policy matters, controversial issues that presidents put off during their first term can cause trouble during their second term. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and historian Robert Dallek.

In his last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Jackson was as much diplomat as basketball coach. He resigned at the end of the season. His new book is The Last Season.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Kenya on the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai. She was honored for her work fighting against government-backed forest clearance in her home country.

A new study finds that deaths in cancer drug trials have declined tenfold, thanks to the development of drugs that are better targeted at tumors and less toxic than previous medicines. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Since U.S. immigration laws were revamped in the 1990s, tens of thousands of immigrants who've committed a crime have been rounded up for deportation. In the first of two reports, NPR investigates allegations that guards beat detainees and terrorized them with dogs at one New Jersey jail.

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Jim Dickson, a hospital administrator in Arizona, about that state's Proposition 200. The new measure, approved by a majority of voters in Tuesday's election, is aimed at denying public services to illegal immigrants and could affect health care for whole communities.

President Bush captures re-election in the 2004 presidential race, winning a majority of electoral votes and a margin of more than three and a half million popular votes. Hear excerpts from his speech in Washington, D.C., and from Sen. John Kerry's concession speech in Boston.

A listener has a question of conscience for Randy Cohen, author of The Ethicist column in the The New York Times Magazine. Is it wrong for an American to pay half price for Russian opera tickets? Hear Cohen and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Voting officials found problems at a number of polling sites Tuesday. Some machines broke down, some voters were turned away and provisional ballots have become a matter of dispute in Ohio. But there were fewer voting irregularities than expected. Hear NPR's Pam Fessler.