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Presents brief news tidbits for the nation for the week of December 3-9, 1995. President Bill Clinton's veto of the Republican balanced-budget plan; Bob Dole's postponement of a vote on a resolution of qualified support for President Clinton's peacekeeping plan in Bosnia; The Senate's vote approving a bill that would outlaw a rare and particularly gruesome type of late-term abortion despite the threat of presidential veto; Other topics.

Reviews the news from around the United States for the week of October 8-14, 1995. Crash of Amtrak's `Sunset Limited' with a message found from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo; Approval of the Republican Party's plan to overhaul Medicare by both the Ways and Means and the Commerce committees of the House; Announcement by Senator Sam Nunn of George that he would step down at the end of 1995; Other national news notes.

Presents news briefs from around the United States for the week of January 21-27, 1996. Appearance of Hillary Rodham Clinton before a Whitewater federal grand jury; The delivery by President Bill Clinton of his third State of the Union message while facing one of the most partisan Congresses in years; Appearance of O.J. Simpson on Black Entertainment Television; More national news.

Offers news briefs for the week of January 14-20, 1996. Continuing impasse over budget talks between President Bill Clinton and Republican congressional leaders; Controversy over Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 1993 firings of White House travel employees; Announcement by Maine Republican Senator William Cohen that he would not seek re-election; Other news.

Highlights news briefs from around the world for the week of December 31, 1995 to January 6, 1996. The resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and his replacement being the current Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto; The resignation of Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who is identified with a strong pro-Western foreign policy; More world news briefs.

Reports on a variety of national issues for the week of December 10-16, 1995. Partial shutdown of the federal government; Congressional votes on Bosnia resolutions and flag desecration; House ethics committee proposal regarding book royalties and Newt Gingrich; Other national news.

Presents news and information occurring throughout the world during the week of November 19, 1995. Initiation of the Bosnian peace pact in Dayton, Ohio; Lech Walesa's loss in the Polish presidential campaign to Alexander Kwasniewski; The lifted ban on divorces in Roman Catholic Ireland; Serial-murder case in Britain; More.

Presents news from around the world for the week of November 12-18, 1995. The renaming of the main square in Tel Aviv for the slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; Explosion in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in front of an American-run military-training center; A major concession by Serbs in Croatia to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991; More world events.

Presents news from around the United States for the week of November 12-18, 1995. The key parts of the government shutting down after President Clinton vetoes stopgap spending-and- borrowing legislation enacted by Congress; Shutdown sending home `nonessential' federal workers; Speaker Newt Gingrich's complaint about what he perceived as discourtesy by President Clinton to him on an Air Force One flight; More national news.

Presents news from around the world for the week of September 17-23, 1995. Stopping of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombing as the Bosnian Serbs remove certain categories of heavy weapons from the exclusion zone around Sarajevo; Peace talks in the Egyptian resort of Taba with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat; More world news.

Presents news from around the United States for the week of September 17 - 23, 1995. Approval by the Senate of the Republican-propelled plan to overhaul welfare; Information about the plan's block grants to be administered by the states; Passage by the House Commerce Committee of a proposal that drastically revamps Medicaid; A wrong turn down a Los Angeles alley which ended in the death of a three-year-old; Nearing the end of the O.J. Simpson trial.

Presents news from around the world for the week of January 21 to January 27, 1996. The denial of allegations by Colombian President Ernesto Samper Pizano that he accepted drug money during his 1994 campaign; The resignation of Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy; The Palestinian election vote marred by mistrust; Other world news.

Presents news briefs from around the United States for the week of December 31, 1995 to January 6, 1996. President Clinton signing legislation returning federal employees to work with pay through January 26, 1996; Views of America's five largest tobacco companies on proposed restrictions on tobacco ads and sales to minors; Hillary Rodham Clinton's alleged association with the controversial mass firings of the White House travel-office employees; More news.

Enumerates briefly on international news stories for the week of December 3-9, 1995. The delayed arrival of United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops to Bosnia as a result of bureaucracy, security concerns, and poor weather; Announcement by Foreign Minister Herve de Charette that France will rejoin NATO's military command after nearly three decades; The public transportation workers strike in France.

Presents information on topics occurring in the United States during the week of November 19, 1995. The six-day budgetary impasse that closed the US government; Announcement by Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kansas) that she would retire in 1996; Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's decision to suspend his campaign for the presidency; More.

Highlights news from around the world for the week of October 8-14, 1995. How the warring parties in Bosnia silenced their guns two days after a cease-fire was due to take effect; Withdrawal of the Israelis from parts of the West Bank; An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Mexico; Russia's worst grain harvest since 1965.

Presents brief articles related to public figures and current events as of February 4, 2002. Resignation of J. Craig Venter as president of Celera Genomics; Release of Tibetan music scholar Ngawang Choephel from a prison in Sichuan province, China; Death of Carrie Hamilton, daughter of Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton; Others.

Presents `Time' magazine's winners and losers for June 10, 1996. Ariel Sharon, Hamas and Israeli religious parties as winners; Yasser Arafat, Hafez Assad and Bill Clinton deemed losers.

Lists `Time' magazine's winners and loser for December 10-16, 1995. Colin Powell; Michael Jordan; Jay Leno; Jupiter; Philip Morris cigarettes; Other recipients.

Takes a look at `Time's winners and losers for the week of November 19, 1995. Winners, including Bob Packwood, the state of Ohio and the television show `E.R.'; Losers, including Lech Walesa, Newt Gingrich and Arlen Specter.

Presents world news briefs for the week of February 3, 1997. Tennis star Steffi Graf being cleared of charges in connection with her father's tax evasion; A declaration of goodwill signed by Germany and Czechoslovakia; Terrorism in Algeria; Brush fires in Melbourne, Australia; More.

Presents brief articles related to public figures and current events as of February 4, 2002. Resignation of J. Craig Venter as president of Celera Genomics; Release of Tibetan music scholar Ngawang Choephel from a prison in Sichuan province, China; Death of Carrie Hamilton, daughter of Carol Burnett; Others.

Presents brief articles related to public figures and current events as of February 4, 2002. Resignation of J. Craig Venter as president of Celera Genomics; Release of Tibetan music scholar Ngawang Choephel from a prison in Sichuan province, China; Death of Carrie Hamilton, daughter of Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton; Others.