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NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the Chicago chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush. Some say the endorsement is meant as a political statement against city's current administration. Police have been upset with Mayor Richard M. Daley because of on-going contract disputes. Daley's brother, William, is Vice President Al Gore's campaign chairman.

Commentator Baxter Black is awestruck by the power of wildfires.

Doug MacPherson of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on the first impeachment trial in that state. Yesterday New Hampshire's Senate opened the trial to hear charges against Chief Justice David Brock. He is accused of lying to investigators, making an improper call to a lower-court judge and soliciting comments from another justice about a divorce case.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on the declining Euro, the single European currency. The Euro fell to new lows against the dollar, adding yet another cloud over the European unification process

Meet the Slow Cities League, a band of about 30 Italian towns that are saying "no" to fast food, and other signs of globalization. These cities are hoping to preserve the easy going pace of small town life.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the changes taking place in the multi billion dollar grocery business in the united States. It has become increasingly difficult to differentiate between grocery stores and department stores because of mergers that have eliminated smaller regional supermarkets.

In the second of a two part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book recounts the life of Goldsmith's parents, who were members of the all-Jewish Kulturbund orchestras in Frankfurt and Berlin in Nazi Germany. Rosemarie Gumpert played viola; Gunther Goldschmidt played flute. (7:47) The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith is published by John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 04713

NPR's Ted Clark reports on today's meeting between India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajapayee and President Clinton. The meeting is expected to improve U.S.-Indian relations, are tackling a main point of disagreement- India's nuclear weapons policies.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Andrew Bernard, an associate business professor at Dartmouth, about his predictions for which country will take home the most Olympic medals. Bernard bases his results on each country's population, wealth and past Olympic performances. He says the US will win 97 medals, followed by Germany with 63 and Russia with 59.

Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports on the raising of the S. S. Catalina. The former pleasure cruiser has become a shipwreck tourist spot in Mexico, but now preservationists are planning to repair it and return it to California.