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NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Congress is expected to approve today a measure that would send some 280-thousand furloughed federal employees back to work next week. They and another 500-thousand federal workers who have been on the job without pay since December 16 would receive back wages. However, most of the agencies they work for would remain closed. The plan was agreed to by House Republicans who last night rejected a broader back-to-work proposals. The plan would also fund for the rest of the fiscal year other programs, including Aid to Families with Dependent Children.

NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS ON THE MAJOR WEATHER PROBLEMS AFFECTING MONARCH BUTTERFLIES THIS YEAR IN THE MEXICAN WINTERING PLACE.

NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDFARB REPORTS ON A DOCUMENT REVEALED THIS WEEK IN BRITAIN THAT HAD BEEN SECRET FOR 50 YEARS. DURING WORLD WAR TWO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TRIED TO CENSOR ONE OF ITS MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS -- P.G. WODEHOUSE.

Year's Eve performance by the Sarajevo Philharmonic earlier this week. Throughout the Bosnian conflict, the Sarajevo Philharmonic has performed continuously, offering a sort of musical therapy for people enduring years of war.

on the State of Union Address.

Linda talks to historian W. Turrentine (rhymes with turpintine) Jackson about the early history of Wells Fargo; the company that extended passenger and mail delivery west of the Mississippi in the last century. American Express did want to go West, so Henry Wells and William Fargo started their own company, which ran the Pony Express and Wells Fargo Stagecoaches.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the execution by firing squad of John Albert Taylor in Utah, scheduled for just after midnight tonight. Utah is the only state that gives condemned prisoners the choice of a gunshot death. The execution is drawing attention to a lingering belief in Utah, called blood atonement.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that AT&T plans to cut about 40,000 jobs over the next three years as part of its plan to split into three companies. About 75 percent of the reductions will be accomplished through layoffs. The rest have either already accepted a voluntary severance package or work for a division AT&T plans to divest.

Linda talks with NPR's Brian Naylor about the budget talks that resume today at the White House. Brian looks at some of the issues the two sides are negotiating. At the top of the list are Medicare, Medicaid and tax cuts.

that injured an Alabama priest on Monday may have been intended for his neighbor, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent. Part of a note referring to an ATF conspiracy was found at the bomb sight.