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NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that President Boris Yeltsin is back in the Kremlin following his post-election stay at the health spa. His return was greeted by the problem that has plagued him and Russia for a year-and-a-half: Chechnya. Chechen fighters have captured part of the capital, Grozny (GROHZ-nee). Russian troops are reporting heavy casualties. Chechnya is only one of may problems facing Yeltsin as he prepares for his inauguration this Friday.

The federal government orders a fourth of its air-tanker fleet grounded. That follows a report from safety experts who studied three tanker crashes last summer. The safety panel says the aerial wildfire-fighting system is seriously flawed. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

This weekHBO has been heavily promoting its new movie, Live from Baghdad. It's about the CNN producers and reporters who braved Iraqi censors and Allied bombs to report from a room in the al-Rashid Hotel on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. Commentator and Time magazine writer James Poniewozik says it might be worth your while to watch this weekend.

A new study suggests autism is more common among U.S. children than previously thought. A Centers for Disease Control study finds the rate may be 10 times the rate reported in earlier studies. NPR's Michele Norris talks with the report's lead author, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsop.

Former Washington Post reporter Jonathan Randal won a landmark legal battle today. Randal had been subpoenaed by the War Crimes Tribunal to testify about an interview with a Bosnian Serb official accused of ethnic cleansing. The decision gives war correspondents some protection from being compelled to testify in the international court. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the nomination of John Snow as the next treasury secretary. Snow has been chief executive officer of CSX Corporation since 1989 and board chairman since 1991. CSX is a large transportation company, based in Richmond, Va., specializing in the railway and container freight businesses. Snow's critics complain that CSX has reported no federal tax liability in three of the last four years.

Unemployment remained low in December -- four percent. But the Labor Department's monthly report did provide additional evidence of the slowdown in the U.S. economy. Hiring inched ahead at a tepid pace, with private firms adding the fewest number of new jobs since last August. And the average number of hours worked per week fell to its lowest level in five years. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports a study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine questions if recovering heart attack patients are receiving the all needed testing before being released. The report focused on the number of angiograms given to patients who fit the profile of one who should be given the test. The researchers found that more than one third of eligible patients had not received the procedure.

No one has been keeping track of how many absentee ballots are coming into all the different counties in Florida, so reporters at the St. Petersburg Times decided to do the job themselves. Robert talks to Brian Gilmer, he's one of the reporters. He says some counties have a heavier absentee rate than others and that if the trends of past elections hold up, the Republican candidate will benefit from a large absentee count.

California Indian tribes, flush with casino revenues, have become some of the biggest donors to political campaigns. But some are balking at reporting contributions, citing sovereign status. A campaign watchdog agency has taken one tribe to court. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.