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to avoid breaking the rules of campaign fund-raising. It's estimated that all senators and representatives combined raise a million dollars a day to finance their campaigns. They've become more wary of where the money comes from, but they still offer access to big donors.

his retirement from the U.S. Senate. After 20 years in the office, he's decided not to seek re-election. The announcement comes exactly 35 years after Glenn's most famous moment...on this day in 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

for practitioners of African-style hairbraiding. To comply with state law, braiders need to have a 'natural hair styling' cosmetology license,' which requires 900 hours of training. Some women, who do hair braiding for a living, have sued the state, saying the license requires things that have nothing to do with their profession.

from telling Medicaid patients about alternative and possibly cheaper treatments. President Clinton announced a ban on the so-called gag rules yesterday. A measure to ban the gag rules for most other patients died in Congress last year, but was reintroduced this month in the House.

which President Clinton sends to Congress today. The Fiscal Year 1998 blueprint includes a mixture of tax cuts in some areas and tax increases in others, along with spending reductions, all designed to bring the budget into balance over the next five years.

that foreign aid donors worry about the legislative gridlock in Haiti. Lawmakers there have yet to pass a federal budget and they refuse to embrace the downsizing and privatization of some state enterprises. The U.S. has pushed the plan for selling off state industries but many Haitians fear losing even more jobs...two-thirds of the workforce is already unemployed.

from doing chores around the house on national holidays. In observation of Columbus Day, digging, raking, vacuuming, mowing and hammering, among other things, are forbidden today. Lawmakers admit the edict is practically unenforceable, but at least the punishment is lenient...violators will be encouraged to - quote "put their feet up and relax."

the 35-year tradition of flying the Confederate flag over the state's capitol building. The governor's plan faces opposition from many state senators, who killed a similar plan two years ago. And in a recent poll, 52-percent of South Carolinians favor keeping the flag.

has ordered three days of hearings to resolve defense charges that the government is not disclosing vital information. The defense wants access to documents that might implicate foreign terrorists in the bombing. The prosecution says the government has turned over all the information it has...more than 20,000 documents.

of one of Detroit's most bitter labor disputes. More than two-thousand workers at the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are striking over job cuts and wages. Despite the picket lines and the support of six unions, both papers have continued to publish by using replacement workers.