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Israel has arrested several members of Yassar Arafat's elite Force 17 bodyguard unit, accusing them of carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians. On the West Bank today, funerals took place for two young victims of violence. NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Hebron.

Lawyer and satirist Kevin Underhill presents his new translation of Dante's epic Inferno. Read the translation.

From member station WCPN in Cleveland, Janet Babin reports on the serious consequences of the latest U.S. Census for a small suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. (4:00) For more, check out NPR coverage of Census 2000.

Poet Peter Balakian has a new book out, June-Tree: New and Selected Poems. Rebekkah Presson Mosby reports on Balakian's perennial concerns with history and his interpretation.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade on the surrender and arrest early this morning of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

The Senate has now spent five days debating a bill designed to reduce the flow of money into federal election campaigns. The bill would outlaw so-called "soft money" contributions, large amounts of unregulated cash that go not to candidates but to the political parties. So far, the amendments that might have crippled the bill have been turned back. And although the bill has been turned back repeatedly in the past, this spring it seems to be building momentum. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's Eric Weiner in Jerusalem reports Israeli military authorities are questioning a scholar about a book he wrote on Israel's nuclear weapons program. Avner Cohen's book Israel and the Bomb was published three years ago in the United States after Israeli censors refused to allow its publication in Israel. Cohen, back in Israel on a visit, could face prosecution for violating the country's Military Secrets Act.

Conservative author David Horowitz sought to place ads in college newspapers across the country denouncing calls for reparations to African-Americans for slavery. Most papers declined to run the ads. Many of those that did sparked protests on their campuses. Av Harris reports from Providence -- Brown University was one of the schools whose paper ran the ad.

Cartoon creator William Hanna died yesterday at age 90. Host Bob Edwards talks about the much loved cartoons Hanna created with his partner Joseph Barbera. They include Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, and many others.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on Mexican President Vicente Fox's first trip abroad since his election. Fox visited California for two days, discussing border and immigration issues with Gov. Gray Davis.