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is considering whether to allow the sale of U.S. fighter jets to Latin America on a country by country basis. Sale of advanced aircraft to South America's repressive military regimes was banned for two decades.

, a prominent supporter of abortion rights, sparked a political furor Wednesday by confessing to lying about late-term abortions when he said they were only done to save lives.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Minority Leader Tom Daschle about the 105th Congress, which convenes next month.

local volunteers to "get out the vote." They have assumed a particular importance in Florida -- the fourth largest state -- which polls say could go either way.

on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks in Washington today. Netanyahu will meet President Clinton at the White House and address the influential American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.

will be hearing arguments today on indecency on the internet. At issue is the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act. Passed by Congress last year, the act makes it a crime to make available to minors on the internet any indecent material.

According to an ISAF statement, the attack that killed a NATO service member and a civilian contractor in Afghanistan on Saturday may not have been an insider attack as originally reported.

For the eleventh straight night, France has been rocked by riots following the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. Monday, French police reported the death of a man who was beaten up in a Paris suburb on Friday. President Jacques Chirac has vowed to punish those responsible.

Top officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations tell the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that they had no specific intelligence before the attacks suggesting terrorists might hijack airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center. But last year, Congress published a report saying a number of warnings detailing the attacks were ignored. Hear NPR's Danny Zwerdling.

Reports emerge on an Islamic militant Web site that insurgents in Iraq have beheaded another U.S. hostage, Jack Hensley. The group led by Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed one American captive Monday. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Peter Kenyon.