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A 19-year-old Israeli man absent without leave from the Army opened fire on Israeli Arabs riding a bus in northern Israel Thursday, killing four people and injuring at least a dozen more. He was beaten to death by an enraged crowd. The violence heightens tensions over Israel's planned pullout from settlements in Gaza.

The team's bus was headed northbound on Interstate 95 in Liberty County, Ga., on April 20 after playing games in Georgia and Florida.

Linda Gradstein reports on details emerging about the Arab- American who crashed his car into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem. After initially calling the incident an accident, Israeli security authorities now say he was a terrorist. Separately, Israeli police released the names of the two Hamas activists in Sunday's suicide bombings.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Cincinnati on the bus campaign tour that George W. Bush is taking on his way to the convention. Governor Bush has been met by enthusiastic crowds of supporters in Ohio. Today he'll attend rallies in Dayton and Columbus.

NPR's Melissa Block reports from Clinton, Iowa, on the campaign trail with the Democratic ticket of Vice President Al Gore and Sentator Joseph Lieberman. The two are taking a bus trip along the Mississippi River. Last night, Gore helped his wife Tipper celebrate her birthday.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on efforts by Republican presidential candidate Governor George W. Bush to appeal to women, by sending his wife Laura and mother Barbara out on a bus tour of swing states (3:30).

Truck and bus manufacturer Navistar International announced today it plans to cut its workforce by three thousand people. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that three out of five jobs in Navistar's Springfield, Ohio plant could be eliminated within three years because of new machinery that replaces workers.

Commentator Elissa Ely, who is in her final months of pregnancy, is stunned by the lack of seats being offered to her by the masses while she's on the subway or the bus or in waiting rooms. One gent comes through and she is ever-grateful.

The bomb on a passenger bus in Volgograd killed at least six. Authorities say it was carried out by a 30-year-old woman from Dagestan.