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Reporter Barbara Mantel (man-TELL) tells the story of the teenaged Garcia girls. They arrived in October from the Dominican Republic and now live with their fatehr in Queens divorced. This is the story of their adjustment to the U.S. They are making good progress in their ESL classes...but the 17 year old is worried about learning the language well enough to attend college. At lunch time they sit with other Spanish speaking kids...although they say confrontations between English speaking kids and Spanish speaking kids are common.

to address the controversy over illicit campaign contributions to the DNC at a news conference today. The Republicans are stepping up their calls for investigations of the affair.

We catch up with some of the closest and most contested election results. Neil Tickner of member station WHYY reports on the race in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, where a recount is being held because the winner gained victory by only ten votes.

The Minnesota Twins are asking taxpayers to build them a new baseball stadium, and they're offering the public a 49 percent share...of the TEAM. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Wareham reports.

who goes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday for a confirmation hearing.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, White House ress Secretary Mike McCurry, Ward Connerly of the California Civil Rights nitiative, Jack Valenti Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America nd scientist Carl Sagan (SAY-gun) who died this past Friday.

in the new Congress have for investigating allegations of impropriety, which have been raised against President Clinton. Most of the allegations go back to Mr. Clinton's years as Governor of Arkansas, but the Republican leaders say they also intend to investigate contributions made to the Clinton reelection campaign.

at the University of Wisconsin, about Presidential second terms and what to expect during President Clinton's second term in the White House. Historians generally agree that second terms tend to be less productive than first terms, for the few Presidents who've won them.