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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Bill Trotter, a fishery and environmental reporter for the Bangor Daily News, about the illegal eel fishing scheme in Maine.

The Texas legislature is again considering a bathroom bill. This one would require children in public schools to use restrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificates.

The recent NWSL scandal involving coaches' alleged abusive behavior toward female players has refocused attention on an all-too-familiar problem -– female athletes experiencing abuse and harassment.

Phillip Davis reports that a media review of uncounted presidential ballots in Miami-Dade County showed a net gain for Al Gore of 49 votes. The interim review, sponsored by The Miami Herald and USA Today, suggests that had state officials accepted a Gore campaign request for recounts in four counties -- Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia -- Gore still would have lost the election by 140 votes.

Host Bob Edwards takes a look at the festivities that will occur in schools today, to celebrate Read Across America Day. It appears that many school principals are willing to go to great lengths to get their students to read more.

President Bush has delayed for 60 days a possible strike by Northwest Airline's mechanics. Other major airlines facing labor troubles see today's federal intervention as a signal the president may help them avert strikes too. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

In the final part of our Changing Face of America series on homeschooling, NPR's Chris Arnold reports on some of the companies that are marketing educational materials to homeschool families. Parents must decide on a curriculum for each of the some $2 million homeschooled children in the country -- and there are plenty of companies willing to sell them textbooks, video courses and 8th Grade in a Box CD-Roms.

Critic Bob Mondello thinks out loud about a theme that keeps cropping up in recent motion pictures-- Reality TV. The movies 15 MINUTES and SERIES 7 are the latest in the trend.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports that testimony will continue today in the naval Court of Inquiry on the accident between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing boat.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Peter DeWitt, spokesman for the Portland, Maine, Public Works Department, about a shortage of places to dump snow. DeWitt says Portland has received 76 inches of snow this year, 16 inches above the norm.