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NPR's Mara Liasson reports..The White House has refused to give Congress an internal report on its decision to allow arms shipments from Iran to Bosnian Muslims..despite an international arms embargo. The White House cites confidentiality. Meanwhile ,..Senate Majority leader Bob Dole said Congress would hold investigate the shipments.

- Tonight, after the Superbowl, Publisher's Clearing House will announce the winner of its annual $10 million sweepstakes. Jacki speaks with Cleo Manuel of the National Consumers League, who explains how to spot a fraudulent sweepstakes. Jacki also speaks with David Sayer, the man who will ring the doorbell of this year's legitimate Publisher's Clearing House winner and deliver the out-sized check.

An Atlanta office building housing an abortion clinic was the site of two explosions this morning. The first explosion was inside the building, on the first floor where the clinic is housed. The second was in a trash container near the building after law enforcement and fire personnel were on the scene. There were several injuries, but no deaths. Joshua Levs reports from Atlanta.

Deborah talks with Ze'ev Chafets, a columnist for the Jerusalem Report, about a poll taken a week and a half ago on the new housing development in East Jerusalem. Opinion on whether to continue development of the housing was split for the most part along ideological lines. Today's violence, he says, is indicative of the fact that ideologues on both sides of the issue are now digging in their heels for a fight.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the House of Representatives voted today to overturn President Clinton's certification of Mexico as cooperating in the drug war. But in a compromise, the House passed an amendment postponing its action for ninety days, to give Mexico a chance to improve its anti-narcotics performance. The President has vowed to veto a de-certification bill, and is concentrating his efforts on defeating it in the Senate.

- Korva talks with NPR's Brian Naylor about the decision by congreessional leaders to place the House Ethics Committee on hold while a bi-partisan panel re-examines whether the entire ethics process is working. The time-out comes in the wake of the long and divisive probe into the ethical problems of House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

about House Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton might affect each one's ability to govern in the new year... as well as the prospects for bipartisan cooperation between Congress and the White House in the New Year.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Cambridgeshire on the enduring appeal of the English hunt. Last week, the British House of Commons voted to ban hunting with hounds. The issue now goes to the House of Lords where a majority opposes the ban. While animal rights activists see the hunt as cruel, advocates in the countryside say foxes are a nuisance to farmers that must be culled.

Control of the U.S. House of Representatives may come down to only a few congressional races November 7th. Republicans have just a seven-seat edge in the House, so vulnerable seats are attracting intense national interest and streams of soft money. One endangered Republican seat is in the Republican stronghold of Utah. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

In a small town outside of Boston, the latest trend is building oversized houses in old subdivisions. Some call the structures McMansions. Many people see them as trophy houses, and neighbors don't like how they dwarf the other homes.