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Japan can call itself the world champion of baseball. The Japanese team captured the inaugural World Baseball Classic by beating Cuba 10-6 in the championship game San Diego.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by Intuit, maker of the personal finance management software Quicken, to introduce a new form of computer software that will make it easier to do banking from home. Intuit already has nine million customers who've embraced the Quicken software, and they're hoping to attract customers who may have never used the technology that's now becoming available for banking by computer or who are too afraid to even try.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from Sarajevo on a change in the leadership among the Bosnian Serbs. Over the weekend, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, [RAH-doh-van KARE-uh-jitch] decided to give up dealing with the international community. He appointed Biljana Plavsic [bee-YAH-nah PLAHV-sitch] to act for him. International observers say the change will not make it easier to deal with the Bosnian Serbs. Plavsic is known as a hard-liner who will probably continue Karadzic's policies.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to take nearly $150 million from Houston, Dallas and Austin unless the cities changed how their police departments interact with ICE.

President Clinton signed the line-item veto bill today. It will allow a president to eliminate specific items in spending legislation, as well as very narrow tax loopholes and new entitlements. The new law, which presidents have called for for decades, goes into effect next January and will expire in eight years unless Congress extends it. Proponents say it will help cut the deficit. But NPR's Mara Liasson reports that many analysts are skeptical about the line-item veto's effectiveness.

Downloading popular songs to use as personal cell phone ring tones has turned into a $3 billion global industry. A growing revenue stream for songwriters and publishers, ring tones are now outselling digital downloads of music. NPR's Michele Norris talks to Geoff Mayfield, the director of charts for Billboard Magazine, which has just launched a "Hot Ringtones" chart.

Now that the line-item veto has passed through both houses of Congress, it is expected that President Clinton will sign the bill, which will give the executive branch the power to cross out select lines of the federal budget, rather than vetoing the entire budget. We have a discussion about the implications of the passage of line-item veto...about its effects on the balance of power between executive and legislative branches, and if indeed it will help the president balance te budget. Linda talks with Robert Reischauer (RYESH-how-er), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well with James Thurber, director for the Congressional and Presidential Studies at Amercian University.

Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley has abruptly stepped down, requesting retirement. He is the third top Army official to depart amid fallout over the way wounded soldiers were treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers say the thwarted attack on the White House Correspondents' Association dinner raises questions about Secret Service protection. Some say it highlights the need for a White House ballroom.

Host Jeff Chang brings you notes from the edge of climate change with Indigenous human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, urban hydrologist and UC Berkeley professor Kristina Hill, and the musician Anohni ("Four Degrees"). Full episode out on April 21.

Covering the Artemis II mission was a dream assignment for one NPR science correspondent.

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, faces tough questioning from Senate Democrats at his confirmation hearings. Responding to multiple accusations that he used intelligence politically, Goss pledged to provide non-partisan intelligence. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.