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Graduation season has arrived and thousands of college seniors are about to leave school with a diploma -- and quite often a lot of debt, too. School loans will have to be repaid, student credit cards have to be paid off and mom and dad may not be as willing to help out with extra cash. To help students sort through money issues NPR's Alex Chadwick turns to Michelle Singletary, who writes the syndicated column "The Color of Money" for The Washington Post and is author of the book 7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life.

Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on challenges being made to Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which allows the practice of assisted suicide.

Lawyers representing soldiers in the first of several military trials on charges of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib adjust their courtroom strategy after published reports that one of the accused soldiers, Spc. Jeremy Sivits, will likely plead guilty. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and NPR's Michele Norris.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is once again acting to remove the names of convicted felons from the voting rolls. But civil rights groups say the state is still reeling from the 2000 election, when many African Americans and Hispanics were incorrectly listed as ineligible to vote. NPR's Tavis Smiley discusses the issues with Buddy Johnson, supervisor of elections for Hillsborough County in Florida, and Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

More explosions rocked Baghdad Tuesday. Charles Duhigg, a correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, reports from the scene of a car bombing in the in the center of the Iraqi city.

Attorney General John Ashcroft says the United States has credible intelligence that al Qaeda operatives are planning an attack inside the U.S. within the next few months, though a specific time, place or method of attack isn't mentioned. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller re-release photos of seven suspected al Qaeda operatives and ask the public's help in finding them. Hear NPR News.

A pastoral letter issued by a Roman Catholic bishop in Colorado states that parishioners voting for officials supporting abortion rights be denied communion. The bishop also would deny communion for supporters of stem-cell research, gay marriage or euthanasia. NPR's Jeff Brady reports.

The growing number of wireless gadgets, from cell phones and WiFi devices to GPS receivers, is creating a traffic jam on the electromagnetic spectrum. The FCC is looking for strategies that encourage new technologies, while keeping signals clear. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander and guitarist Ernest Ranglin are old friends, countrymen and music legends. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to them about their music — and they perform jazz tracks from their latest CD collaboration.

U.S. troops and Iraqi police raid the home and offices of the Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress party. Chalabi, a member of the U.S.-appointed governing council, condemned the raid. An Iraqi judge said it was carried out on the basis of an arrest warrant for several Iraqis wanted for unlawful detentions and other crimes. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.