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Some United Airlines workers are losing tens of thousands of dollars from the company's employee stock ownership plan. Now, United's financial woes are dragging stock values into the ground. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

Robert talks with Jonathan Freedland, policy editor for the Guardian, about the newspaper's challenge to the 1701 law banning non-Protestants from succession to the British throne. The paper has teamed up with human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, to challenge the law on the grounds that it conflicts with the Human Rights Act, which became British law two months ago.

Advisors to Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush tried to lay claim to the moral high ground today, each saying they were trying to protect the interests and will of the American people. But at the end of the day, it sounded a lot like the charges and countercharges of an increasingly bitter and ongoing campaign for the presidency. NPR's Peter Kenyon is in Austin, Texas, where Governor Bush spoke briefly today.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports from Washington on the Bush campaign's appeals to the U-S Supreme Court, to overturn Tuesday's Florida State Supreme Court ruling. Until now, the federal courts have refused to intervene in the Florida Election dispute, on the grounds that it's a matter for the State of Florida to decide. Meanwhile, Republicans in the Florida legislature are threatening to get involved.

Monday's earthquake did not trigger a tsunami, but it did spark a scare across the region. Several countries along the Indian Ocean received early word of the possibility of a second tsunami, including Thailand, where tens of thousands fled to higher ground.

The recovery effort at the site of the former World Trade Center officially ends Thursday, but the search continues at Fresh Kills landfill, just across the harbor on Staten Island. Officials there are still poring over millions of tons of "Ground Zero" rubble, looking for remains, personal effects and evidence. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

As the Republicans open their national convention near the site of ground zero, testimonials to President Bush's leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks' dominate the night. Bush was never as popular in the polls as he was in the weeks following the attacks. Hear NPR's Mara Liasson.

Russia claims an attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers. Ukraine and some reporters on the ground say that's not true.

Despite many other surprise medical bills being banned starting in 2022 due to the No Surprises Act passed by Congress, ground ambulances were excluded.

President Biden is visiting Israel ahead of an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, and after Tuesday's explosion at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds.