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Quinn Cummings started a new kind of storytelling — via monster Twitter threads. She speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about her desire to give followers a respite from politics and daily news.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that financial markets have stabilized today after a sharp fall Monday and Tuesday. The fall is largely attributed to a breakdown in the budget negotiations, though some analysyts say market factors were more important. The sharp reaction in the financial markets may put pressure on the politicians to make a deal. In fact, it may be that some of the Republican policical rhetoric is calculated to affect the market and put pressure on the President.

Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the ouster today of Rajko (RYE-ko) Kasagic (KAW-sa-gitch), the prime minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic, by Radovan (RAD-ah-VAN) Karadzic (KAIR-ah-jitch), the Bosnian Serb president. The moderate Kasagic was cooperating with the international community and his removal is seen as a significant blow to the peace process in Bosnia.

NPR's David Molpus reports that one of the major issues facing this country, racial division, has rarely been addressed in this year's presidential election. Although the candidates touch upon the issue in oblique ways, through discussions of affirmative action, immigration and jobs, neither has talked directly about how to bring together the nation's diverse population.

The Catholic Church has launched a massive campaign to oppose President Clinton's veto of a late-term abortion bill. In preparation for an expected vote next month in Congress to override the veto, the Church is distributing millions of postcards to its members to send to their representatives in Congress. The campaign is also expected to continue until the November elections, in which the so-called Catholic vote is expected to figure prominently. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

While some pundits have bemoaned the presidential race as dull and dreary...the nation's editorial cartoonists have been having a blast. Host Renee Montagne talks with two Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonists, Mike Luckovitch and Mike Peters, about the challenge and the fun of lampooning Al Gore and George W. Bush. For a look at their drawings, visit our website at npr.org.

Jeff Tiberii talks to Sam Ratto, founder of Videri Chocolate Factory about the impact of tariffs on business. Paula Poundstone's tour stops in Greensboro and Asheville. The founders of the Death Faire discuss the importance of honoring death, dying and grief.

Robert talks with Geoffrey Garin (GAIR-en), president of Garin-Hart-Yang Strategic Research, and Linda DiVall, president of American Viewpoint, about what voters think about the Whitewater investigation. Garin is a pollster for Democratic candidates and DiVall works for Republican candidates. DiVall believes that Whitewater has definitely had an effect on President Clinton's popularity, and that the nation's opinions about Hillary Clinton have negatively affected voters' perceptions of her husband.

While the Democrats have charged repeatedly that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole is in the back pocket of tobacco interests, both parties have benefitted from camapign contributions from the tobacco industry. Democrats are getting less money than they used to, but they still get a lot. And the Clinton Administration, while it has tried to limit smoking domestically, has not done so when it comes to tobacco exports. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Senator Bob Dole, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has released his position on how the issue of abortion should be dealt with in the party's platform. He hopes to avoid a big fight at the national convention in San Diego this summer. Dole said he endorses keeping language that calls for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, but that he would back new language acknowledging that Republicans differ on a number of issues, including abortion.