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Commentator Marion Winik details her experience preparing for and appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". She was hoping Oprah would rave about her memoir, clutch it to her chest, and make it a best seller. Instead, the experience sort of fell flat...except for the great blouse she bought herself for the event.

New York City was in a state of euphoria today as the city honored their championship-winning Yankees. Millions of people turned out for the parade in Manhattan. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

It's been a bad year in California's wine country - bad weather has plagued grape growers, causing a small harvest. Prices for quality grapes are way up. Vintners are now importing medium-quality wine from South America and France to make up the difference. Ancel Martinez reports.

- Danny talks withg NPR's Linda Gradstein about the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian authority. Gradstein says today's meeting was mainly procedural and that the real peace talks will begin in earnest tomorrow. Just before today's talks began, Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned both sides that the talks have to produce concrete results or else the Middle East will slide back into a cycle of violence.

about President Clinton's proposals for targeted cuts and credits as they are with Bob Dole's tax-cutting proposals.

to vote on a final version of anti-illegal immigration legislation. The bill would double the size of the U-S/Mexican border patrol, make it easier to stop illegal immigrants at the border, and streamline the deportation process.

In a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, Kindercare, the country's largest day-care chain has agreed to accept toddlers who are diabetic. The settlement grew out of a lawsuit against a Columbus, Ohio center that refused to accept a child whose blood sugar required monitoring, The Ohio center said it could not perform the "medical procedure." NPR's Joe Palca looks at what the ramifications of the settlement are.

between United Nations Ambassador Madeline Albright and President Reagan's former U.N. Ambassador, Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Both women are considered candidates to be the next U.S. Secretary of State.

. He was 77 years old. Agnew was President Nixon's vice president, resigning in disgrace in 1973.

NPR's Renee Montagne talks to drug agents, addicts and experts about methamphetamines. Sometimes dubbed "the poor whites' crack," meth--also called speed or crank--is spreading beyond the biker groups who've used it for years, into schools, trailer parks and other primarily rural settings. Arrests are up, and the higher quality of the new meth is worrisome because its rush seems irresistible and abuse often leads to violent behavior.