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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.

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.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has been following one of this year's tight congressional races, between incumbent Democrat Paul McHale and Republican challenger Bob Kilbanks. One of the big factors as the campaign becomes increasingly tense is fundraising -- and Kilbanks is running into problems because some in the business community are still bitter that he beat their favorite candidate in the primary, or they think Kilbanks is too conservative to win.

who helped devise Bob Dole's economic proposal. Taylor defends the premise that Dole can implement a fifteen percent income tax cut, a fifty percent reduction in the capital gains tax rate, and a 500 dollar per-child tax credit, all that while still balancing the budget in six years.

- 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.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun is defending her recent visit to Nigeria against criticism from Randall Robinson of the African lobbying group TransAfrica and the human rights group, Amnesty International.

as Iraq's leader, despite years of war and economic hardship.

has issued a new series of guidelines on the use of car seats and airbags for children. The guidelines come after several children died in accidents where the airbag was deployed.

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.

Today President Clinton declared that the canyons of the Escalante in southern Utah a new National Monument. NPR's Howard Berkes speaks with Robert about what qualifies the region as a national monument and how the designation will affect the area's land-use.