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A U.S. district judge rules against a New York law that bans the wearing of masks during public demonstrations. The judge says the law amounts to "viewpoint discrimination" by singling out a Ku Klux Klan-like group that applied for a parade permit -- and is therefore unconstitutional. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

President Bush also met privately today with other NATO leaders in advance of tomorrow's alliance summit. But he has not scheduled a meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who made his opposition to war in Iraq a central plank of his recent campaign platform. NPR's Guy Raz reports relations between Bush and Schroeder have been strained by the Iraq issue.

A panel at the upcoming Black New England Conference will discuss the significance of monuments and what they say about our cultural values.

Commentator Frank Deford cheers on some of the underdog college football teams that have the word, 'State,' in their title, as opposed to those that are known as, 'the University of...' He mentions several, including Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, and Utah State.

The fate of the campaign finance law enacted earlier this year is in the hands of three federal judges, who are gathering evidence for a trial. But the documents being submitted for that trial are unusual in that the interesting parts are all obscured from view. NPR's Peter Overby explains why.

Daniel talks with CNN reporter Gary Striker who is in the Zairean town of Kikwit where there's been an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has killed at least 57 people since it resurfaced in March. Striker visited the hospital in Kikwit which he says is the epicenter of the outbreak. He describes what he saw.

Listeners share memories from their proms.

We're going to follow a little league baseball team this summer, so today we attend one of their practices. The Yankees are half boys and half girls. Girls and Boys playing on the same baseball team is not THAT surprising these days.

Michael talks with television reporter Jane Olsen from WRIC about the controversy in Richmond, Virginia surrounding the erection of a stature of Arthur Ashe. Ashe, who won Wimbledon 20 years ago this month was a native of Richmond and many people want to erect his statue on Monument Avenue, the site of many civil war monuments. But some say he neither belongs there nor should stand with the very people who sought to oppress his race.

Boutros - Daniel speaks with United Nations General Secretary Boutros Boutros Gali about the UN's predicament in Bosnia. Gali says that a negotiated settlement is still the best way to resolve the conflict, and that he is committed to keeping U-N peacekeepers in the region.