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The FBI today said they've arrested more than a dozen suspected mob leaders indicted by a federal jury on 25 charges. Several of them were arraigned today in Detroit. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that virtually every mob leader in Detroit has been indicted.

Today General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement that could end the seventeen-day strike against two parts plants. The strike has idled most of GM's North American plants and furloughed more than one hundred seventy five thousand workers. Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about what will happen after the union votes on the agreement. (3:30) 6. IMMIGRATION -- The House is due to vote today on a bill overhauling immigration laws. One of its provisions would allow states to deny public schooling to children of illegal immigrants. In addition, the House may follow the Senate's lead by splitting the measure into two parts, separating rules dealing with legal immigrants. The separation could kill attempts to sharply limit the number of legal immigrants. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. Updates are expected. Please be prepared to do new BBS if you use any of these details.

Finland may seem an unlikely place for internet activity, but in a recent ranking of countries based on internet computers, Finland was the clear winner. Danny talks with the managing director of Finland's largest internet provider to find out why.

continuing to burn and loot city suburbs which they are leaving.

presidential election. Perot was a third-party candidate in 1992; when he got 19-percent of the national vote.

between China and the United States over the issue of Taiwan. Tomorrow, China is scheduled to begin nine days of military exercises in the Straits between the mainland and Taiwan. Both Taiwan and the United States have protested, and the U.S. is said to be moving a second aircraft carrier group into the area as a cautionary measure.

after the Palestinian authorities announced the arrests of several senior members of Hamas' military wing. >

Commentator Marianne Jennings sasys business people speak a different language...sometimes they don't use words, just acronyms, sometime they take nouns and turn them into verbs and sometimes they put all these things together and nobody knows exactly what they are saying.