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The New York Liberty topped the Minnesota Lynx in overtime, to win the WNBA Finals three games to two. NPR's A Martinez talks to Jesse Washington of ESPN's Andscape about the game.

No. 43 Cade Foster missed two kicks and had a third blocked in a game against rival Auburn. But Foster got a note from someone who can relate: George W. Bush, the 43rd president. "Life has its setbacks. I know!" he wrote.

Comey is a Republican and a former Justice Department official during the George W. Bush years. His nomination sailed through the full Senate once Republican Sen. Rand Paul lifted his hold on the nominee.

In Charles Town, W.Va., police say a bank robber asked a cabdriver to wait for him until he came out of the bank. The driver recognized the suspect's photo from an earlier robbery and called police.

AS CEREMONIES GET UNDERWAY COMMEMORATING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER TO ALLIED FORCES FIFTY YEARS AGO, NPR'S NEAL CONAN REPORTS ON THE HATREDS THAT FUEELED THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. PROFESSOR JOHN W. DOWER, THE HENRY LUCE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAYS THAT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES CREATED A VICIOUS CYCLE. (PROFESSOR DOWER'S BOOK "WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR" IS PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON) WE ALSO HEAR EXERPTS FROM GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S SPEECH AT THE SURRENDER CEREMONY IN TOKYO BAY.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has a report on the running speculation over who will be tapped to run for Vice President on the Republican ticket. George W. Bush spent today on his ranch, where he said nothing about who will be his runningmate. Bush aides also had no comment, even about when an announcement might be made. But former Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, who headed up Bush's vice presidential search committee, has told colleagues he is the leading contender for the job and is doing nothing to tamp down the swell of news reports that he is Bush's choice.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about the week ahead in politics. This week President Clinton will focus most of his attention on the Middle East peace summit. The summit is set to begin tomorrow at Camp David with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Vice President Al Gore takes on Congress today, while Texas governor George W. Bush speaks at the NAACP national convention in Baltimore.

Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush have been all but bumper-to-bumper on the campaign trail this week as they concentrate on Midwestern swing states. Yesterday, Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before heading to Illinois. Today, Gore spoke to the same VFW meeting before making his way to Chicago. Bush told the veterans that the Clinton-Gore administration had allowed U-S military readiness to deteriorate. Gore today enlisted the help of former Defense Secretary William Perry to rebut those charges. NPR's Melissa Block reports from Milwaukee.

Peter Kenyon of NPR News, reports from Erie, Pennsylvania that Texas Governor George W. Bush is defending his state's record in providing health insurance for children. A federal judge in Texas has ordered the state to improve its enrollment in a healthcare program for poor children. Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has been pressing the Republican candidate for details of his health care plan for the nation. But Governor Bush is not being rushed. He says he'll have details of the plan after the Labor Day holiday. He goes on to criticize the Clinton-Gore administration for being ineffective on this issue for the past seven years.

Janet Heimlich reports from Austin that 35-year-old Roy Criner was released from a Texas prison today after serving ten years for a rape he didn't commit. DNA evidence that surfaced three years ago suggested that Criner was innocent and he'll receive a pardon from Governor George W. Bush as soon as the paperwork is completed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to grant Criner a new trial three years ago, despite the fresh evidence, arguing that he still could have committed the crime.