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NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London that British Police have arrested two men in connection with the IRA bomb attack ten days ago in East London. And, today, the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for a second bombing in London last night that killed one person and destroyed a bus.

going into today's New Hampshire Republican primary. Senator Bob Dole is said to have the most at stake, with a serious challenge from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes are scrambling to remain credible contenders.

Linda talks with NPR's political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold and pollster Andy Kohut, about early exit polls and the electorate who turned out in New Hampshire.

One of America's grestest and most prolific composers died last night. Reporter Dean Olsher interviewed him just a few months ago and offers an appreciation.

Daniel talks with two lawyers about a lawsuit against the publisher of a book that contains descriptions of how to commit murder. This lawsuit stems from a 1993 triple murder in Maryland. The man convicted of those killings was hired to do the job and is said to have followed the book's directions in committing murder. The book, "The Hit Man", is essentially a highly detailed manual about how to commit a murder and get away with it. One of the lawyers, John Marshall, filed the suit against the publisher on the behalf of the victims' family. He says the book publisher should be held liable in the deaths of 3 people as well as the convicted hit man. The other lawyer, Jane Curtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, says holding the publisher of the book liable for aiding and abetting murder is a dangerous encroachment on free speech.

Last week we asked our listeners to call into tell us about their first real kiss. Tonight we'll hear some of their stories.

Tonight in Iowa results of the long-awaited GOP caucus will be announced. Robert talks with Hugh Weinbrenner, professor of public administration at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa about what the Iowa cuacus is all about. Professor Weinbrenner explains what happens at a caucus and why they exist.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Pastor Michael Grady in El Paso, Texas, and Dion Green in Dayton, Ohio, about the weekend in 2019 in which mass shootings in each city upended their communities.

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.

Richard Holbrooke to rescue the Dayton Accord. The Bosnian Serbs' refuse to negotiate with IFOR over the detention by the Bosnian government of four of their senior Serb army officers for alleged war crimes.