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President Clinton met with members of the Republican leadership today to discuss balancing the budget. The White House said the President was pleased with the meeting, but House Speaker Newt Gingrich indicated it was unlikely both sides could agree before the election on a long-term plan to balance the budget. Instead, the Republicans sais their legislative agenda will be to fund the government for the rest of the year, and pass a farm bill and a scaled-down line-item veto. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The border crackdown near San Diego is causing illegal immigrants to try crossing on foot through the mountains in eastern San Diego county. But most are unprepared for the snow and cold weather and several have frozen to death trying to get across. Human rights groups blame the Border Patrol for forcing the immigrants to cross through the mountains, but the Patrol blames immigrant smugglers for misleading immigrants about the dangers and then abandoning them. Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS reports.

Educators and linguists testified on the question of "Ebonics" today before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee which oversees education funding. Officials of the Oakland, California school district, which sparked a national controversy over the use of ebonics in public schools, replied to criticisms that the district's actions were based on political correctness. They explained that the district was trying to address the "chronic underacheivement" of black students and using ebonics to increase the students' proficiency in standard English. NPR's Dean Olsher reports.

New York City's subway is one of the few underground transit systems to stay open 24 hours. That's nice for bleary-eyed revelers and late-shift workers heading home. But it's difficult for the people who clean and repair the system between trains. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Jim Williams never met a piece of electronics he didn't like. The Silicon Valley electrical engineer collects and cherishes what few of us notice: the inner workings of modern machines. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

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Thomas Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, talks about his new book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, takes a hard look at the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Former NFL player Darren Sharper pleaded guilty to rape charges involving nine women in four states. ProPublica reporter T. Christian Miller says local police weren't sharing information.

The past 24 hours have produced a few answers — but many more questions — about the anti-Islam film that became a flashpoint across North Africa and the Middle East this week.

The cases — charging that China unfairly subsidizes auto parts and slaps high duties on U.S.-made cars — come as Republican rival Mitt Romney argues that President Obama has let too many jobs go overseas.