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Today, we look back on yesterday’s election. We’ll talk about the results at the national, state and local level. And we’ll carry a live press conference by President Bush.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders celebrated the passage of two measures he says will give him tools to cut costs at the city. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

The Supreme Court steps back into the abortion arena today. The issue is not the right to have an abortion but whether Congress can ban certain methods of abortion known as "partial-birth abortion."

NPR's Michele Norris and Melissa Block talk with NPR's Political Correspondent Mara Liasson, who has been closely watching the nation's Senate races.

Voting at 75 Indiana precincts was delayed Tuesday, leading to an extension of voting hours. The cards that activate the machines were programmed incorrectly. Michele Norris talks with Karen Wenger the county clerk in Delaware County, Ind.

Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua was at the center of U.S. foreign policy 20 years ago. The Reagan administration gave financial and military support to the anti-Sandinista forces known as the Contras. Now Ortega appears to be headed back to power.

Nicaraguan supporters of Daniel Ortega were celebrating in Managua on Monday night. Although the final tally is not yet in, it seems that the Sandinista leader has enough of a lead to avoid a run-off. With 60 percent of the ballots tabulated, he has about 38 percent of the vote.

In one of the races expected to determine control of the Senate, incumbent Republican George Allen and his Democratic challenger, Jim Webb, campaign at full throttle in the Virginia communities of Vienna and Norfolk.

Host Debbie Elliott gets an update on the close Senate race in Maryland, where African-American Republican Michael Steele got an endorsement this past week from influential black Democrats.

Vanity Fair magazine editor David Rose interviewed a collection of prominent neo-conservatives, among them Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and David Frum. Ardent supporters of the Iraq invasion, they are now openly questioning the Bush administration's current policies.