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A Muslim woman is creating a stir in the mountains of West Virginia. Asra Nomani has been seeking women's rights at her small mosque in Morgantown. But the toughest resistance she's met has come from other Muslim women, who say they're already liberated. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about today's White House meeting between President Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat is seeking clarifications about the latest U.S. peace proposals. One of the Palestinian leader's advisors says today's meeting could be decisive for the future of the peace process.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Kosovo that ethnic Albanians are uneasy over the ascent to power of president-elect Vojislav Kostunica in Yugoslavia. As long as their arch enemy, Slobodan Milosevic, ruled, Kosovar Albanians could rely on the whole-hearted support of the international community. With a more democratic Yugoslav government, the Kosovars will be pressured to seek accommodation with Belgrade. As for the Kosovo Serb community, it is sharply divided between Kostunica and Milosevic supporters.

Teenage students who are academically gifted but classified as illegal aliens, often fail to go on to college after high school because they lack proper documentation and fear deportation if they seek higher education. Recently, the Board of Regents in Dalton, Georgia ruled that students, who are here illegally, will be allowed to attend the state's colleges if they are academically qualified. Rob Hilton reports.

Lawyers for George W. Bush were shuttling back and forth between two trials this morning in Tallahassee, Florida. Lawsuits filed from Seminole and Martin counties were attempting to disallow thousands of absentee ballots cast in those counties, most of them for Bush. The suits allege that Republicans seeking absentee ballots got special help in qualifying for them. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Tallahassee.

Holmes claims she did not seek to deceive investors in her blood-testing company Theranos.

Citizen border watchers converge on southern Arizona to begin a month-long stakeout for illegal immigrants. The so-called Minuteman Project is seeking to stop illegal aliens from crossing a 23-mile stretch of the Mexican border in the San Pedro Valley, but turnout for the project has fallen short of organizers' predictions.

Seeking to blunt growing criticism over high energy prices, President Bush is proposing to speed construction of nuclear power plants and oil refineries -- possibly on retired military bases. He also made a pitch to boost sales of energy-efficient vehicles.

A racketeering trial of the tobacco industry begins with government attorneys accusing the tobacco companies of working together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking. The government is seeking $280 billion in damages. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

Iraq's Shiite population seeks new political power after years of oppression. There are more Shia living in Iraq than Sunnis or Kurds. But there are fissures between Islamic and secular Shia, and it is unclear whether cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will participate in the elections. NPR's Emily Harris reports.