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Host Alex Chadwick talks to reporter Satish Jacob about the violence in Kashmir. At least 84 people in Kashmir have died in a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamic guerrillas opposed to a cease-fire in the disputed territory. The attacks came as the Indian government prepares to talk to the main guerrilla group in Kashmir, where more than 25-thousand people have died over the course of an eleven-year Islamic insurgency.

Linda talks to Declan McCullagh, a reporter for Wired News, about covering the convention on the Web. McCullagh describes Internet Alley, where all the "dot-com" reporters are located at the First Union Center in Philadelphia. He and Linda discuss the services Websites provide, and whether the technology is really helpful to the average voter... yet.

Texas Governor George W. Bush arrived in Philadelphia today to claim his nomination for president from a Republican convention that can hardly wait to offer it. NPR's Steve Inskeep followed the nominee-to-be as he toured the city.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that Syria's new president, Bashar Assad, has released 30 political prisoners imprisoned by his father. The prisoner releases have sparked speculation that the new president might prove to be more liberal than his father. But experts say the late Hafez Assad initiated the liberalization and had begun releasing political prisoners before his death earlier this summer.

According to sources in Chile's Supreme Court, the court has stripped former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution. The verdict still must be signed by all the judges, and formally announced. If he does, in fact, lose his immunity, Pinochet could then be tried for human rights abuses.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein about the double blow suffered today by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Foreign Minister David Levy quit the government saying Barak had offered too many concessions to the Palestinians. And the Knesset passed the preliminary reading of a bill for early elections.

Veteran newsman Robert Trout has the second of two reports about the history of the Republican party, through his own reporting on the last 17 conventions over a period of nearly seventy years. Today, Trout picks up in the late 1940's and early 1950's, and the fight between moderates and conservatives -- between the forces of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert A. Taft. Eisenhower won. But the pendulum swung back in the 1960's with the nomination of Barry Goldwater. Ultimately, Trout points out that the struggle between moderate and conservative still marks party proceedings today.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional form of Cuban music and dance that is rarely heard on the island is thriving in one part of Mexico. In the streets of the port city of Veracruz, you can often find live danzon concerts, and dozens of couples dancing to the melody. Even young people have fallen in love with the danzon. A local danzon troupe has toured the US, Canada and Europe.

It was forty years ago today that "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," sung by Brian Hyland, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, topped the charts.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that, judging from the careful phrasing of Condoleeza Rice's GOP convention speech last night, the Bush campaign is very wary of making any grand gestures concerning foreign policy.