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A new lawsuit argues that the White House UFC fighting event scheduled for next Saturday on President Trump's birthday violates the law.

House Republicans meet Tuesday to hear from the two declared candidates for speaker of the House. The House is currently paralyzed to act on new bills to express support or sent new aid to Israel.

The White House has intensified its fight against House Democrats' impeachment inquiry — saying the administration will not provide any documents or testimony.

Before sending agents to the White House, the Secret Service wants to give them realistic training. The agency requested $8 million to build a replica. Some lawmakers say one White House is enough.

NPR's Mara Liasson has an update on the Democratic National Committee's fundraising troubles. Congressional Republican leaders said today that Vice President Al Gore may have violated the law by soliciting campaign contributions from the White House. And a Republican lawmaker is suggesting the first lady knows more than she's acknowledged about links between the White House and fund-raising. Indiana Congressman David McIntosh points to a 1994 White House memo. In it, Hillary Rodham Clinton encourages a plan to share computer data on supporters with the Democratic National Committee.

The Clinton Administration's chief housing official, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, has won Republican praise for some of his initiatives to help depressed urban areas. Those programs include elements of GOP housing policies and have alienated some Democrats. But Republican critics in Congress say Cisneros has not gone far enough toward the GOP approach. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the partisan dispute and the choice of former congressman Jack Kemp as the Republican vice presidential nominee have raised the profile of urban issues in the presidential race.

In order to promote "traditional" family values, the Virginia Housing Authority, has decided to stop making housing loans to gays and unmarried single people. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the agency, which loans money to low and moderate-income first-time home buyers, has taken the step at the urging of Republican Gov. George Allen. Federal officials are examining policy changes for possible civil rights violations.

THIS WEEK MARKED THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST "PHYSICAL" FIGHT ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1798. ALEX TALKS WITH THE FORMER HOUSE HISTORIAN, RAYMOND SMOCK, ABOUT THE INCIDENT. 3:50 3. BEETLES: ALEX LOOKS FOR BEETLES WITH ENTOMOLOGIST MICHAEL IVY IN NORTHERN MONTANA. THE BUGS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE ENVIRONMENT -- AND OFTEN DEMONSTRATE THE AMAZING ADAPTATIONS VARIOUS SPECIES MAKE AS THEY VIE FOR SURVIVAL .

Federal officials have determined that poverty isn't the only reason why many public housing projects in the United States have deteriorated into virtual war zones where drugs and crime plague residents. They believe that the architectural structure of the complexes may have something to do with it. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that government architects are exploring new designs for public housing to make them safer places to live.

Police and Secret Service agents today wounded and disarmed a 47-year-old Indiana man who reportedly brandished a gun outside the gates of the White House. Robert Pickett of Evansville, Indiana, was taken into custody and treated for a gunshot wound to the thigh at nearby George Washington University hospital. NPR's Pam Fessler has more from the White House.