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The Supreme Court today struck down sections of the 1992 Cable Act that restricted indecent programs on certain cable channels. But it upheld another provision that allowed individual cable companies to refuse to air such programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole lost in a bid to pass a balanced budget amendment today. He brought the issue up for a vote, knowing the Democrats would not help him get the two-thirds margin required. But Dole forces consider the loss a plus. The Dole presidential campaign will accuse President Clinton and the Democrats of not being serious about wanting a balanced budget. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on today's debate.

Edward Lifson talks with people in Chicago about why they don't vote.

free tolls when traffic backs up, and starting Monday -- a 65 Miles-per-hour speed limit on parts of the thruway to the New York border.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

The Smithsonian's celebration of the American South includes an array of terrific bands. Robert met with Michael Doucet (doo-SAY), the leader of the Cajun band Beausoleil (BOH-soh-LAY). He also listened to the Treme (TRAY-may) brass band from New Orleans, and the Birmingham Sunlights, a five-member a cappella (AH-kuh-PELL-uh) band.

A church service is held every Sunday in a junk yard on Chicago's South Side. The preacher is 82, the services are non-denominational, and the congregation is made up of the homeless as well as customers and employees of the junk yard. NPR'S Edward Lifson reports that those who attend the services say they don't need a pristine setting or a church to find God. (8:00) (IN S

Robert talks about the three-year-old Rottweiler, "Gator," who found the last survivor in the bombed Oklahoma City Federal building. Gator recently died after a fall in his owner's back yard.

One aspect of campaigning that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has mastered is his ability to find some personal link to just about every place he visits. Either he was stationed there as a young military officer or he recuperated there after his war injury. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold gives examples from recent Dole campaign trips of this age-old political technique for connecting with voters.