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of revised Welfare Reform legislation yesterday. The latest version retains federal standards for medicaid eligibility and maintains food stamps as a federal safety net. At the same time it turns the main welfare program into a block grant with which states can design their own programs. It also cuts off many benefits after five years. President Clinton praised the changes, and the bill now heads for conference committee to be reconciled with a tougher House version.

marked the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier at a ball game Shea Stadium in New York last night. After courting racial controversy last term with his stands on welfare and affirmative action policy, the President is plans to devote more of his energy to race relations. He will unveil a major initiative next month...it will bring about no new government programs but will focus on encouraging dialog.

For America's daily papers, the news hasn't been good: For nearly two decades, newspapers have been losing paid subscribers. And a new report illustrates that circulation is now dropping more quickly than ever.

ICE says it was targeting people with criminal records. Immigrant advocates charge the administration with creating a climate of fear.

Israeli army and police work to evict Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Settlers and Jewish protesters resisted the eviction in many places, but a number of the settlements are now empty, and Israeli officials say the operation is going more quickly than expected.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt, with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He says that despite sand storms, the division moved quickly into place today at an undisclosed location about 4 km from the Kuwait-Iraq border. Troops have been told that they most likely are going to combat soon.

The list of the top-performing college endowments came out Thursday. Yale University's investments have beaten the S&P 500's performance for the last five years. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli explains how college endowments work and how schools like Yale manage to beat the market year after year.

Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer presents the findings of his investigation on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to Congress. He is expected to say that Iraq did not possess stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons as the White House had asserted before the Iraq war. Hear NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

The United Auto Workers pick General Motors as lead labor negotiator as Detroit car companies approach a new four-year contract. GM rivals Ford and Chrysler agreed with the union to extend the current contract until a new deal can be worked out.

Bloomberg reported that Chinese government operatives planted minuscule microchips into servers created by an American company called Supermicro, whose products are used by Amazon and Apple.