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As voters choose between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, NPR has complete coverage of the presidential race as well as Senate and House contests. The NPR news special contains news and analysis of election returns.

Despite a nearly four-hour halt in trading yesterday due to a "technical glitch," most investors didn't really feel the impact.

A suicide car bombing at an Iraqi police station in Baghdad leaves the bomber and eight Iraqis dead and dozens wounded. In a separate incident, a Spanish embassy employee is killed in Baghdad. Northwest of the Iraqi capital, a U.S. soldier dies in an ambush on his convoy. NPR's Tom Bullock reports.

Haiti prepares for its first presidential election in nearly two years. Officials say they have a system in place to assure a fair process at Tuesday's polls. But the unstable nation is experiencing an upsurge in violence, and U.N. forces will provide security as millions of Haitians vote.

Crumpet the Elf is back for another Morning Edition Christmas. Crumpet is the not-so-secret identity of humorist David Sedaris, who was once a department store elf at Macy's. He wrote about the experience in his memoir The Santaland Diaries.

Republicans opened their storm-shortened national convention Monday amid distractions involving running mate Sarah Palin. It was disclosed that a lawyer was hired to represent the Alaska governor in a firing investigation, and that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

Google Nose lets you sniff "15M+ sentibytes" via your computer screen. Twttr is for those who only want to use consonants. YouTube closes until 2023 because it has enough videos already. Morning Edition profiles "Hootie and the Time Travelers." The foolishness has begun.

On this week's show, our hosts drink tequila with a band from Tijuana, dance to Brazilian funk mixed with klezmer, and receive a visit from an Argentine DJ with a love of South African hip-hop.

The Beatles-esque track is the first peek at the Philadelphia band's third album, which is due out later this year.

Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together and to write an original poem about the news. This month, our NewsPoet is Robert Pinsky. Want to write your own poem about the day's news? You can put them in the comments below.