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Liane Hansen speaks with N-P-R's Chitra Ragavan [CHIT-rah AH-ga-vun] about the elections in India. She says the sentiment among the opulace there is that all politicians are corrupt, but voters are anxious to ring in a new crop of leaders, hoping they'll bring positive changes before hey fall into the same pattern of corruption.

who has discovered a diary that seems to confirm that Admiral Richard E Byrd became the first person to fly a plane over the North Pole 70 years ago. (5:10).

45 people were charged today with distributing child pornography. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says the Postal Service made the arrests after a two-year 36-state undercover operation.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel Federal ruling in which a New York judge has held that victims of handgun violence can sue the firearms industry to discover whether it failed to take steps to prevent sales to illegal buyers.

Writer KAREN ARMSTRONG is the author of the best-seller "A History of God." Her new book examines how the city of Jerusalem became the holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims. ARMSTRONG's new book is "Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths," (Knopf) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

A water bottling company is now making bottled water with added caffeine.

Playwrite and author Kevin Kling goes to the Metrodome in Minneapolis as part of his brother's bachelor party. The game was dull, but for these fans in the stands, an epic eventwould soon unfold from the bleachers.

Scott reads some listener comments and gets a lesson on 17-year cicadas (sih-KAY-duhz).

Ann-Elise Henzl of member station WUWM in Milwaukee eports on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which equires museums to return artifacts to tribes. Enacting the law is proving ifficult for both tribal members and natural history museums.

Noah talks with Adam Bryant, transportation reporter for the New York Times, as questions about the Federal Aviation Administration's role as cop and cheerleader to the industry grow in the wake of the crash of ValuJet Flight 592. They'll talk about how effective the F-A-A can be as a regulator of safety concerns while maintaining its stance as a representative of the airline industry.

"Society" Pianist PETER MINTUN for a concert and interview in the Fresh Air Studio. He specializes in popular song classics of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. He just finished an engagement at the Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans Bar in New York City and returns there in August. His recordings can be found on the PREMIER RECORDINGS Label. His latest is "Grand Piano: American Popular Music of the '20's, '30's, & '40's." He also wrote the liner notes for the CD, "The Night is Young: Concert Music of Dana Suesse." MINTUN also wrote the liner notes for a Dana Suesse Cd which is part of a series called "Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era, Master Composers and Stylists of American Piano Music." (Pearl) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

NPR's Derek Reveron reports on the status of the investigation into the cause of the crash of Valujet flight 592. The DC-9 went down in the Florida Everglades one week ago killing 110 people. Divers today began diving missions into the crater opened up by the plane when it went down. Yesterday officials ruled out engine failure as the cause of the crash.