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Just days after rejecting an invitation to make a brief video appearance at the Republican convention, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan today refused to endorse the man who beat him for the nomination, Bob Dole. Buchanan set out conditions the party will have to meet to keep him on board. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators are now on the scene of yesterday's plane crash in Monroe, Michigan. Officials are recovering the bodies of the 29 people killed when the commuter plane crashed in a snowstorm. Roger Adams of member station WDET reports from the scene.

The National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that evidence from the wreckage of TWA flight 800 was "consistent" with a fuel tank explosion. Scott speaks with NPR's Melissa Block about whether investigators are any closer to discovering the cause of the explosion.

Africans on board a slave ship in 1803 rebelled and drove their enslavers into the water right as they were arriving in Georgia.

The College Board will soon release an updated framework for the highly criticized AP African American Studies course.

In a 5-4 vote, the Bloomington City Council approved liquor license fee increases for the first time since 1982. The changes will begin next year, with…

of revised Welfare Reform legislation yesterday. The latest version retains federal standards for medicaid eligibility and maintains food stamps as a federal safety net. At the same time it turns the main welfare program into a block grant with which states can design their own programs. It also cuts off many benefits after five years. President Clinton praised the changes, and the bill now heads for conference committee to be reconciled with a tougher House version.

State legislatures have passed laws that require doctors to have hospital admitting privileges to perform abortions. Some courts are now saying these laws are unconstitutional.

Kelly was arrested Thursday evening in Chicago and charged with 13 federal counts. On Friday morning, prosecutors in New York's Eastern District unsealed five other counts, including racketeering.

Sutter Health, the most expensive health system in California, is expanding at a rapid pace and transforming itself into an "accountable care organization." Some worry about the nonprofit hospital's growing leverage.