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- in the days before the Palestinian elections, which take place January 20.

Commmentator Amy Dickenson feels a little guilty about the terrible blizzard- she may have cast the spell that caused it!

open for another six weeks, which passed the House last night and goes to the Senate today. House Republicans and Democrats and Clinton administration officials spent a long day working out a compromise.

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that conservatives are upset over the courtmartial and discharge of Army medic Michael New for refusing to wear a UN patch or blue cap while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New has become a hero to those opposed to the UN because they fear the United States is ceding national sovereignty to a one-world body.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the Senate debate today on the stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government operating through March 15th

Hillary Rodham Clinton is appearing before a federal grand jury today, the first First Lady to give testimony in such a forum. We talk with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg about why the independent counsel has subpoenaed Mrs Clinton in the Whitewater investigation and what questions she's being asked.

We hear from young people around the country who were schoolchildren when the Challenger exploded. They describe how the disaster changed their views of NASA and the government, and how the deaths of Christa McAuliffe and the other astronauts shocked them into realizing that life was easily lost.

FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TESTIFIED BEFORE A GRAND JURY YESTERDAY ON WHITEWATER. NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS.

and restore normal activity in cities along the Eastern Seaboard in the aftermath of this week's winter storm.

Just who owns jazz? Does it come from an African source? Or is it the result of a confluence of cultures in this country? Saxophonist Archie Shepp believes that jazz belongs to black people, culturally, and that it should be theirs financially too. More from reporter Deal Olsher, on jazz business and jazz history.