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A duplicate set of several-hundred tickets to this Saturday's playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and the Miami Dolphins were accidentally mailed out. This means there are actually six hundred tickets for only three-hundred seats. Linda talks to Elliott Almond, Investigative Sports Reporter for the San Jose Mercury News.

President Clinton has been busy. Yesterday Mr. Clinton announced a sweeping new rule banning logging and drilling in some 60 million acres of national forests. NPR's Brian Naylor reports the action demonstrates how much an outgoing president can accomplish in his waning days.

U.S. authorities have been frustrated by the refusal of some countries to extradite criminals who would face the death penalty in the U.S. Now L.A.'s new District Attorney says he will not ask for capital punishment in those cases where it would prevent extradition. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the election post-mortem held by The Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate Democrats, who met yesterday in Washington. They talked about how their party might have done better in the election and disagreed fundamentally on the campaign strategy pursued by their Presidential candidate.

NPR's John Ydstie reports Federal Reserve policymakers cut short-term interest rates by half a percentage point today. The move was widely expected and follows another half-percentage point cut earlier this month. The Fed is aggressively cutting rates in order to prevent the economy from falling into recession.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem reports the Palestinians have an enormous stake in next week's Israeli election. Most say it doesn't matter to them whether Ehud Barak or Ariel Sharon wins the vote, but in the final days of the campaign, the Palestinian leadership has decided to do what it can to prevent a Sharon victory.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on John Ashcroft's testimony during the second day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into his nomination as US Attorney General. Ashcroft spent much of yesterday on the defensive, as Democrats grilled him on his record on civil rights and women's rights.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Khankala , Chechnya, on Russian President Putin's change in military policy toward the breakaway republic. Putin plans to withdraw thousands of Russian troops and police from Chechnya and turn over command of military operations in the region to the Federal Security Service, the successor to the Soviet KGB.

NPR's David Welna reports on the Senate's approval of Gale Norton's nomination for Secretary of the Interior. Environmental groups had complained that she was an "extremist" in the mold of James Watt, who stirred up controversy as President Reagan's Interior Secretary. But, despite protests and TV ads attacking Norton, her nomination sailed through the Senate with ease.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that President Bush is has chosen Vice President Dick Cheney to head a task force to examine California's energy problems. California lawmakers are now examining the books of the state's utilities to determine whether a bailout is appropriate.