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Research suggests less than 5 percent of students at America's top colleges and universities come from low-income families. Many of these elite institutions recognize the problem and are taking steps to boost economic diversity on campus -- such as offering full scholarships for underprivileged students. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

California is fighting a costly battle against an industrial chemical that has leaked into the state's groundwater. The state suggests even tiny amounts of perchlorate are worrisome, but other say there's little evidence of illness. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports in the first of a two-part series.

Citigroup agrees to pay $2.65 billion to settle a class-action suit brought by investors over its role in the WorldCom scandal. Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney issued optimistic research reports on WorldCom and helped it raise money by selling its securities. The money will be paid to those who held company shares between 1999 and 2002, when the telecom giant declared bankruptcy. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

NPR's series on new religious movements continues today with the fastest growing Christian church. The Toronto Blessing is a Pentecostal church, in which the worshippers display a personal, physical connection with God through manifestations such as speaking in tongues and barking like dogs. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba authored the investigative report about abuses of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of American soldiers. His report has proved embarrassing to the Pentagon and the White House. But Taguba, the second-highest ranking Filipino-American officer in the U.S. Army, is a source of pride to the Filipino-American community. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

President Bush has strong words of support for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying during a visit to the Pentagon that the defense chief is doing a "superb job." Some lawmakers have called for Rumsfeld to resign over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Commentator Michael Ivey was urged by his wife to go see Prince in concert. He resisted at first. But he ended up going. He loved the performance... but then he realized he was seated at "eye level."

As part of the Morning Edition series of commentaries on the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Fawaz Gerges predicts the scandal will provoke more violence by Iraqi insurgents. Gerges is professor of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of the forthcoming book The Jihadists: Unholy Warriors.

The Russian-backed president of Chechnya and at least five others were killed Sunday in an explosion in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Among the dozens of wounded was Russia's senior military commander in the region. The bomb went off in a stadium where President Ahmed Kadyrov was attending celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley and Kim Murphy of The Los Angeles Times.

A powerful car bomb wounds a senior Iraqi official outside his Baghdad home, kills at least five people -- including the sucide bomber -- and injures others. The attack comes just a few days after the assassination of the head of Iraq's Governing Council. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.