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Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS in San Diego reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has invited a representative of the Mexican government to open an office inside the San Diego border station. The idea has drawn strong opposition from inspectors who work at the station and from conservative critics who see the move as a violation of national sovereignty.

House Republicans continued their public campaign to keep Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich in control of the Speakership today. Party leaders held a conference call to reassure caucus members of the inconsequential nature of Gingrich's ethics violations. And Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour told a press conference that Democrats were making a raw partisan power play to manipulate the ethics process and deny Republicans the leadership they won in the election. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Kathleen Schalch reports many members will not be returning as elected representatives but as lobbyists seeking to influence legislation they helped write.

Linda talks with Dr. Ed Kilborn, a Research Professor of Microbiology at New York Medical College, about why influenza seems to strike and spread more during the winter than in any other season. Kilborn says it's a combination of factors...including the dryness of the air and the fact that the flu viruses tend to incubate better when people stay close together indoors in overheated environments.

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return home to Kinshasa after cancer treatment. Mobutu must face the disintegration of his country with rebels backed by Rwanda controlling large areas of the east of the nation.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that New York Governor George Pataki proposes testing every welfare applicant for drug use, and cutting off cash benefits for those testing positive. They'd be sent to treatment programs "when available," and experts predict chaos because of the number of addicts on welfare far exceeds the number of treatment centers.

who now advocates doing away with all nuclear weapons. Until three years ago, General Butler was in charge of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He says that, with the end of the Cold War, the rationale for keeping nuclear weapons no longer exists, and that the United States should lead the effort to eliminate them.

the Clinton Administration out of expanding a law requiring them to detail all the chemicals that go into plants and factories. Environmentalists are pushing for the expansion, to hold the chemical industry accountable for accidents and toxic pollution.

its digital wireless communication network. The long distance phone company will combine voice and data transmission to offer a wireless telephone and pager in one package.

A special commission set up by Congress to study the accuracy of the consumer price index has concluded the C.P.I. overstates inflation by approximately 1.1%. The commission, headed up by former Bush Administration economic advisor, Michael Boskin, made several recommendations for correcting the upward bias...which costs the federal government billions of dollars every year because the C.P.I. is used to adjust benefit payments to millions of American retirees and veterans. NPR's John Ydstie reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from the Zairean capital Kinshasa that longtime President Mobutu Sese Seko is expected to return tomorrow after spending several months in Europe getting treatment for prostate cancer. Mobutu will be returning to a country in severe crisis: a weak civilian government and a largely inept military are facing a surging rebel army in eastern Zaire. Some believe the uprising, combined with Zaire's legendary corruption, economic mismanagement and political instability, could lead to the complete disintegration of one of Africa's largest nations.