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The Congress President Clinton will work with next year is expected to be quite a different body than its predecessor. Political observers are predicting that the Senate will be more extreme -- on both sides of the aisle -- while the House looks more moderate than the 104th Congress. Congressional leaders are already promising to keep up the pace of investigations of the administration. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before a key Senate committee today, as members of Congress take stock of the evidence he presented to the United Nations yesterday. Some Democrats say if the United States attacks Iraq, it must maintain a peace-keeping force there for years to come.

NPR's David Welna reports on moves by some members in Congress to play a leading role on carbon pollution regulation in power plants. Earlier this week President Bush reversed a campaign pledge on limiting such emissions. But today a bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a "Clean Power Act" legislation, designed to regulate power plant pollutants. The Bush administration is focusing more on anticipated power outages; earlier today, Energy Secretary Abraham predicted blackouts in California this summer.

Residents suffer from water line breaks on the Navy water system; Kauaʻi mayoral candidate Michael Roven Poai; We revisit a story from HPR's Sleep Week about the sleep habits of zoo animals

If you are bitten by a Lone Star tick, you could develop an unusual allergy to red meat. And as this tick's territory spreads beyond the Southeast, the allergy seems to be spreading with it.

The State Office of the Public Defender has filed a third extraordinary writ with the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to address overcrowding in prisons and jails; we pause to remember those who died following the outbreak of COVID-19 cases at Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo. And we learn about an effort to make less gassy cattle — why red seaweed means greener cows.

The video shows shows a black vehicle speeding through Garfield Circle, near the U.S. Capitol complex. At one point, officers open fire.

Edna O'Brien's new book is set in a little Irish village disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, a war criminal in hiding whose murderous hands can heal as well as kill.

Maui wildfire leaves six dead and 2,100 seeking shelter; HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol on Maui County's Agriculture Department; and learning about the journey from bean to bar from Lonohana Estate Chocolate

House Republicans passed their version of a tax overhaul today, as President Trump visited Capitol Hill to rally support for it. But prospects for a tax bill in the Senate are looking less certain.