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NPR's Aaron Schachter reports from Los Angeles where police officers are gearing up for protestors at next month's Democratic National Convention. Police staged a mock street demonstration yesterday and invited the press. Skeptics say the scripted event was designed to boost the reputation of the beleaguered LAPD.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on today's announcement by the Federal government to change the designation of many gray wolves in the U.S. from the "endangered" to "threatened." The government says this is the result of successful efforts to rebuild wolf populations, but some environmentalist say it may leave them vulnerable to becoming endangered again.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Cuba on Fidel Castro's "doctor diplomacy." Since 1963, Cuba has sent some 25,000 doctors to work in the developing world. But lately Havana seems to be changing its approach: it has opened a special school to train medical students from across Latin America. Cuba is footing the bill for the more than three thousand students in the initial class. After they graduate, they will return to their countries to work in underserved areas.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr wonders if The New York Times did journalism a disservice -- going too far to mask the identity of a source inside Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office.

The NAACP convenes it's annual convention in Baltimore. NPR's Phillip Martin reports.

NPR's Richard Knox reports from the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa that a widely used spermicide, once thought to prevent the spread of HIV, may actually increase the risk of transmission. New research suggests nonoxynol-9 can increase the likelihood that some women will be infected with HIV. The study was presented today.

A brief summary of some of the other news on today's program.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has elected its first female bishop. Reverend Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the Pastor of Payne Memorial A.M.E. Church in Baltimore, Maryland, was elected along with three other Bishops at A.M.E. convention in Cincinnati last night. She talks to Linda Wertheimer about her new role in the church.

Vice President Al Gore brought the NAACP convention delegates to their feet today. Welcomed as a "member of the family," the Democratic presidential candidate served up Scripture, promises to fight hate crimes and discrimination, and tough talk about his Republican rival and GOP leaders in Congress. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports from Baltimore.

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