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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on new data that supports a controversial theory that women who have elective abortions are at increased risk for getting breast cancer.

The White House and Congress settled on a bill authorizing numerous new parks yesterday. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the winners--San Francisco's Presidio Park, for example--and some of the losers, including Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

New York City was in a state of euphoria today as the city honored their championship-winning Yankees. Millions of people turned out for the parade in Manhattan. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

- NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a new immigration law that restricts and at times limits federal courts from reviewing complaints brought against the government. Immigration opponents praise the new immigration law while critics say it could be unconstitutional.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin is recuperating from a seven-hour heart bypass operation. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on what this period of recovery will mean for President Yeltsin and Russia.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that much of the success of workfare in New York City hinges upon the cooperation of the city's powerful labor unions...unions which are growing increasingly skeptical about the role and motives of the workfare programs.

The town of West Hartford, Connecticut, is running out of burial space. NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel approach to the problem, which secures more burial space while providing the living with a new spot for their picnics.

The Kabul museum in Afghanistan was once considered one of the greatest museums in Asia. But in the past few years, the museum has been looted by Afghanistan's warring factions. NPR's Eric Weiner reports on recent attempts to restore the Kabul museum's lost treasures.

NPR's John Burnett reports on Texas Attorney General Dan Morales' order barring affirmative action by public colleges and universities. Colleges may not use race as a factor in admissions, scholarships or recruitment programs.

CIA director John Deutch was at a town meeting in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles yesterday. He was answering allegations that the agency introduced the crack cocaine trade there in the early 1980s. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on how that meeting went.