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The closure of a major flu vaccine manufacturer will cause major shortages during the upcoming flu season, say health officials. Before its license was suspended, the Chiron Corp. intended to ship 48 million doses of flu vaccine to the United States. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about recent legal difficulties for Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage lender. Company executives appear before Congress Wednesday to defend their accounting methods.

Commentator Cornel West has been monitoring the role that African-American churches might play in this presidential election, and how Republicans are becoming more encouraged.

Should Sen. John Kerry be elected president, the new first lady would be Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman quite different from the traditional cast of White House wives. The widow of a Republican senator who died in a helicopter accident in 1991, she married Kerry in 1996. But through her decades of public life in both parties, she has shown a penchant for independence. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

At Tuesday's vice presidential debate, both Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards stretched, muddled, and sometimes mangled the truth. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

In his last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Jackson was as much diplomat as basketball coach. He resigned at the end of the season. His new book is The Last Season.

Last weekend in Orlando, Fla., Sen. John Kerry gave a speech on the middle class. Hear an excerpt from that speech as part of a series of excerpts from the presidential candidates' speeches to be broadcast in the weeks before the election.

Tonight's presidential debate format calls for the moderator, Charles Gibson of ABC News, to ask the candidates questions submitted by an audience of undecided voters, who were hand picked by the Gallup organization. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, about how audience members were selected.

NPR's Alex Chadwick checks in with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the supporting role of lawyers in this election, and the looming possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy.

Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for The National Review, and Slate editor Jacob Weisberg offer their analysis of election results.

Only 16 U.S. presidents have been elected to a second term, and not all of those have gone well: Witness Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra debacle and Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal. On policy matters, controversial issues that presidents put off during their first term can cause trouble during their second term. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and historian Robert Dallek.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Kenya on the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai. She was honored for her work fighting against government-backed forest clearance in her home country.