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Authorities have charged Joseph M. Czuba with murder, hate crimes and other charges. One Muslim leader said the stabbing was an attack "on all of us."

A full-blown congressional debate on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts will unfold this fall, but some lawmakers have already weighed in on the most controversial issue: whether it makes sense, at a time of huge budget deficits, to extend tax relief for those earning more than $250,000.

Although the Catholic Church officially opposes abortion, the report says there's far greater diversity of opinion among laity in the U.S.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath about a volatile and angry president who was prone to throwing dishes, knew that supporters were armed and didn't want the riot to stop.

2: British poet, novelist and critic A. ALVAREZ. His new book Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams (W.W. Norton & Co.) is about the dark and the night, literally and figuratively. ALVAREZ examines night terrors, dreams, sleep research, fear of the dark, and "the dark night of the soul." ALVAREZ writes, "Daylight, with its routines and busyness, keeps. . . fantasies mostly at bay. But at night, when the external world is hidden, common sense loses its points of reference, and there is space for less amenable figures to make their presence felt."

2: Novelist and short-story writer CHARLES BAXTER. He has a new novel, Shadow Play," (W.W. Norton & Co.) about a Faustian contract a man makes with a former classmate. BAXTER has written several volumes of short stories. His stories have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "The Atlantic Monthly,." One reviewer writes, "Baxter is a master at creating loopy, poetic, and meaningfully unhinged psyches."

NPR's Melissa Block reports from New York City on author alter Mosley's new book, "R.L.'s Dream". The book is currently in stores, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995) and a film version of one of his earlier novels, Devil in a Blue Dress," is about to be released in theaters around the nation. osley has gained notoriety for his Easy Rawlings mystery series, but he has hanged pace in his latest novel, which instead focuses on the essence of the lues. Melissa Block visited the author in his apartment to find out more about osley's recent change in genre.

Biologist JOEL E. COHEN. He heads the laboratory of populations at Rockefeller University in New York City. His new book is "How Many People Can the Earth Support?" (W.W. Norton). COHEN's book is "neither an alarmist tract nor a cornucopian lullaby." COHEN considers the central population issues: Has rapid population growth, brought us close to destruction? And what is the carrying capacity of the earth? The New York Times Book Review writes, "it would be hard to conceive of a better book for those interested in a scholarly and nonideological review and analysis of population issues."

Film historian DAVID J. SKAL. He's an expert on the horror film genre. His books include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (W.W. Norton) and The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Penguin, paperback). His newest book (written in collaboration with Elias Savada) is Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre (Anchor Books). Tod Browning was a film director who earned the reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." He directed Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi and made such films as "Dracula" and the "repellent. . . and pathetic" "Freaks."

In the third and final debate last night, presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore presented radically different cures for the issues that ail America. For Democrat Gore, the answers lie in policy, and on issue after issue Gore said he disagreed with his opponent. Republican George W. Bush took different tack. He argued that the real difference was who could be trusted, who could get things done, and he pointed to his record in Texas. In marshalling evidence to support their divergent views, both candidates occasionally stretched the truth. NPR's Peter Kenyon sets the record straight.