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For the past week, only four militants have remained at the refuge near Burns, Ore. They're among the 16 whom a grand jury indicted on charges of conspiracy and using threats and intimidation.

President Clinton leaves tomorrow to visit Moscow and to meet with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Daniel talks to NPR's Ann Garrels about the mood of the Russian people and the state of Russian politics. Russians find that the security of their lives under the Soviet system is gone and they are facing an uncertain future. She says that although Yeltsin is not popular, there are no political alternatives to his leadership.

that, so far, 28 states have submitted their welfare reform plans. The deadline is July 1st in order to take advantage of a new funding mechanism which will allow them to receive more money from the federal government. Other states in other circumstances have no incentive to file their plans early.

Nearly 20,000 people have been declared dead in the wake of Monday's earthquake in southwestern China. NPR's Melissa Block and Robert Siegel were on the ground, covering the quake and its aftermath from the beginning. Today, they take a step back to discuss their experiences with Michele Norris.

A new report from the Kew Gardens in London is billed as the first comprehensive report on the state of the world's fungi.

Federal, state and local agencies are racing to determine the cause of the spill, which is at least 13 square miles in size.

In a series of reports for Radio Expeditions, Elizabeth Arnold journeys to Sri Lanka with one of the first teams to assess the environmental aftermath of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami.

Reports that Griffith Park's famous four-legged resident became ill from exposure to rodenticides have heightened concerns about the use of the poisons in California.

on the $35 million campaign the AFL-CIO is planning this year to defeat 75 House members -- almost all of whom are Republicans. Labor hopes to reassert itself as the important voting block it once was. But many union members voted Republican in the last election and getting them to follow the union leadership's guidance on election day is a formidable task.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to education researcher Gerald Bracey about the state of American education. Bracey feels, contrary to public opinion, that the education system is in fact doing very well. He says that the school system includes a more diverse group of students than it did 50 years ago and education standards compare very favourably with the rest of the industrialized world.