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the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the year ending September 1996, right before the presidential election, the INS granted a record one-point-one million citizenships...that's triple an average year. Only later did they find out that about 10,000 new citizens had previously been arrested or convicted of felonies.

where Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday proposed eliminating 1,000 staff positions and cutting administrative costs as the first step in his program to reform the world body. The United States, the organization's biggest debtor, has vowed not to pay until Congress sees major changes in the U.N.

after Scottish scientists announced over the weekend that they'd successfully cloned a sheep. The future of the process is in question. It appears that it would work on other animals, possibly even humans, but most see that as unethical and unacceptable. But researchers say the development could provide valuable information for human health and diseases.

Board of Higher Education has upset some college students and professors. The rule says that a college major with less than five graduates must be dropped. Officials say the broad, liberal arts education will still exist, but only during the freshman and sophomore years.

Federal law requires publicly funded medical researchers to promptly report the results of many experimental treatments. But few are doing so, a review shows, and patients may be hurt.

A report that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised will come out this month will look at the causes of autism. Many worry it will have claims unsupported by science.

Washington Post investigative reporter JIM McGEE. He has co-written with Brian Duffy the new book "Main Justice: The Men And Women Who Enforce The Nation's Criminal Laws And Guard Its Liberties." It's published by Simon and Schuster. The book is about the changing role of the U.S. Justice Department. As the fears of terrorism increase, Congress and the White House are giving the Justice Department more investigative powers and a wider jurisdiction which includesactions in foriegn countries. McGee warns in the book that along with the apparent protection this could provide Americans it could also erode individual liberties. McGee shared a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on the Iran Contra Affair. McGee lives in Virginia.

Jim Risen, a reporter for The New York Times, will ask a court Tuesday to throw out a Justice Department subpoena. Risen says he doesn't want to testify against a CIA agent accused of leaking classified information.

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam says it's "not easy" to strike a balance between efficiency and transparency in state government. Several times this year…

Activists say some civilians have been killed by gunfire, but that government forces are not attacking rebels from the sky so far today.