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The Department of Justice is investigating whether baseball's Baltimore Orioles have illegally refused to sign players who defect from Cuba. Senator Jesse Helms claims team owner Peter Angelos instituted the policy to maintain good relations with Fidel Castro. But some baseball insiders say another factor may be at work: Cuban defectors quickly find agents and don't come cheap. NPR's Tom Goldman has the story.

Hard-line Israeli conservatives rallied in Tel Aviv today in the largest demonstration in Israeli history. They want to oppose any concessions by Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the Camp David Peace Talks. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports, that's the opposition is not necessarily the majority sentiment in Israel.

NPR's Sharon Ball reports on the numerous political candidates who made appearances at the NAACP convention last week ... in some form, all adopted a style of speaking inspired by preachers ... some had more success than others.

The Rolling Stones hit the top of the charts 35 years ago this weekend with the song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." We hear an excerpt of the song.

NPR's Alex Chadwick remembers a talented producer of documentary programs. Josh Darsa died last Fridayat age 67. He was responsible from one of NPR's earliest hallmark documentaries "Cowboy."

Tomorrow, a 19-year old princess from Bahrain will ask a U.S. immigration judge if she can remain in the country with the U.S. Marine who smuggled her out of the kingdom last year. Host Jacki Lyden talks with Dwight Davis of the San Diego Union Tribune about the case that could cause a riff between the U.S. and the royal family of Bahrain.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the race for the Senate in New York State. Both Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, and GOP Congressman Rick Lazio are taking to the streets, and to the airwaves, to try to drum up votes.

Writer Jeff Goodell grew up in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, in a sleepy town named Sunnyvale. Suddenly, the computer revolution took off, changing Sunnyvale from a community of orchards and tract homes, to one of start-ups and millionaires. At the same time the computer industry was skyrocketing, Jeff Goodell's parents got divorced, his father's landscaping business started to fail, and his brother developed a decades long substance abuse problem. Host Jacki Lyden speaks to Goodell about his book, Sunnyvale, which tells how the rise of Silicon Valley, and the fall of his family are intertwined. (Sunnyvale: the Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family; Random House, 2000)

Jacki talks with Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago about the Palestinian perspective on the peace talks. Khalidi says that even if negotiators can come up with solutions to difficult problems like the sovereignty of Jerusalem, it will be difficult to sell the ideas to either Palestinian or Israeli publics.

For a respected physicist to suggest that it's possible for something to travel faster than light, is rather like a geologist declaring that the earth is flat. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, tomorrows issue of the prestigious journal Nature contains a paper that claims exactly that.

Negotiations in the strike between members of the Screen Actors' Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the advertisers who hire them for TV commercials resume tomorrow. Strikers claim they've disrupted the industry. Ad companies say everything is humming along fine with non-union actors, and commercial production has moved to Canada and abroad. NPR's Aaron Schachter reports.

The diamond industry is proposing strict measures to stop the funding of African wars through diamond sales. So-called "conflict diamonds" from countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have helped to fund bloody wars. A proposal to stop the practice was made at a conference called the World Diamond Congress today in Belgium.

NPR's Ted Clark speaks with ATC host Linda Wertheimer about the summit at Camp David, where Israeli and Palestinian leaders are still working on a peace deal. President Clinton has delayed his trip to Japan by a day to stay with the talks.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that the lower house of the Russian parliament, or Duma, approved legislation today giving the president more control over the country's powerful regional governors. Also today, tycoon Boris Berezovsky officially quit the Duma, to protest Kremlin moves to rein in the governors and big business.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that gasoline prices in the Midwest have dropped dramatically this month. In June, prices in Chicago and throughout the Midwest skyrocketed past $2 per gallon. Now, costs have dropped to as low as $1.27 in Indiana, and other states are close behind. Last month's rise led to investigations into claims of price fixing and the 0suspensions of gas taxes in several states. Oil producers attribute the drop in gas prices to fixing a pipeline problem that had limited its ability to deliver the fuel.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes that, with all the attention being paid to the Camp David negotiations, Washington may be overlooking a burgeoning alliance among foes of U.S. missile defense.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the death of Senator Paul Coverdell. The only Georgia Republican senator to ever win re-election, Coverdell is almost certain to be succeeded by a Democrat; Governor Roy Barnes (D) is expected to make his decision shortly. But many Republican House members may try to run in the November special election, which could result in major changes in the state's congressional delegation.

Robert talks with Frank Phillips, reporter for the Boston Globe, about Jack E. Robinson, who is running on the Republican ticket against Senator Edward Kennedy. Robinson is so controversial that not even his own party is supporting him.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that at the heart of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is insistence on ruling the tiny, one-mile-square old city of Jerusalem, a site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Since its conquest of the city in the 1967 war, Israel has ruled the old city insisting that it must remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel. Palestinians are demanding sovereignty over, at least, the areas of old Jerusalem where Arabs are a majority.

Commentator Bailey White remarks on her niece's wedding. To get ready, the gal does a massive amount of cleaning, mending and building. This work strikes White as at odds with the bride dressed in innocent white.