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Leda Hartman reports on the controversy within the United Church of Christ over the blocking of admission to gays and lesbians in a predominantly African-American congregation in North Carolina.

Utah's most outspoken polygamist, Tom Green, is scheduled to stand trial before a jury in May. Green has five wives, and 25 children. It's the first major prosecution of polygamy in the state in 50 years. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

The week after Christmas is crunch week for video gamemakers like Nintendo. Hundreds of support staff field thousands of calls from desperate parents and kids who are trying to get their new games going. Cathy Duchamp of member station KUOW in Seattle reports.

In the biggest land conservation act in decades, president Clinton has this afternoon approved an order putting nearly a third of the national forest land permanently off limits to road building and logging. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

In his final trip as President, Bill Clinton traveled back to his home state of Arkansas to address the Arkansas legislature and the people of Little Rock. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Mark Roberts reports that four of the seven convicts who broke out of a Texas prison last month were captured Monday in a foothills community south of Denver. One committed suicide and two are still at large.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President Bush's first day at work in the White House. The president yesterday met with congressional leaders and issued a ban on federal funding for international family planning clinics that support abortion.

This month, a number of companies have announced they would layoff workers. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that these layoffs may actually help the economy by increasing the pool of available workers in an incredibly tight job market.

NPR's Rick Karr reports that the internet is at the center of the campaign against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General. The question is how effective are e-mail and activist web sites at attracting and engaging citizens and what impact do the efforts have on Capitol Hill?

NPR's Joe Neel reports on a new method of treating blockages of heart arteries that uses radiation inside the artery itself. Two studies in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine offer support for wider use. Critics are concerned that more study is needed.