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about House Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton might affect each one's ability to govern in the new year... as well as the prospects for bipartisan cooperation between Congress and the White House in the New Year.

where large numbers of Kurdish refugees are fleeing towards Iran. This exodus follows yesterday's capture of northern Iraq's biggest city by the Kurdish faction allied with Saddam Hussein.

that's designed to keep legal immigrants from taking advantage of public assistance programs. Some experts think the efforts will merely shift the burden of helping immigrants to state and local governments.

In apparent defiance of Alexander Lebed, Yeltsin's national security advisor, the Russian military commander in Chechnya has vowed to clear the rebels from the Chechen capital of Grozny.

is in Okinawa to conclude a deal with the island's governor on the status of U.S. bases there. The agreement will allow the U.S. bases to remain despite last week's overwhelming referendum result that called for an end to the American presence there.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Health and Human Services Assistant Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections Ann Maxwell about a report on the mental health needs of children in HHS custody.

The report by Physicians for Human Rights says that even since the ceasefire in Ethiopia last November, sexual violence against women and girls, as an act of war, has continued.

The White House defends its decision to wait 22 hours to inform the public that Vice President Cheney had accidentally sprayed his hunting partner with birdshot. President Bush found out about the incident Saturday evening, but the media wasn't informed until Sunday.

Many fans of professional baseball say they're not all that surprised by findings of widespread use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Fans around the country speak out about the use of steroids in baseball, which has been whispered about as early as the 1980s.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing on misleading information from the battlefield. The focus is on two cases: former Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, and Army Ranger and former NFL star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire.