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More than 80,000 homes in North Carolina are still without heat or electricity four days after an ice storm knocked power out for more than 1 million people. Hundreds of National Guard troops are going door to door to check on residents. NPR News reports.

Commentator Merrill Matthews wonders why so many people think George Bush's agenda is "conservative." According to his dictionary, a conservative is one who resists change, but Bush and the Republicans are the ones calling for change and reform these days, not the Democrats and not the "liberals." From tax policy to education to the military, Bush and the Republicans are behaving like liberals and the Democrats with their resistance to change are acting more conservative.

After a five-day struggle to save it, a 40-story-high oil rig sank today off the coast of Brazil with 400,000 gallons of crude oil and diesel fuel on board. Last Thursday, 10 people died when gas explosions damaged the rig. Now officials are trying to prevent an environmental disaster. Noah Adams talks with reporter Tom Gibb.

Anglers from across the country line up elbow to elbow along the Yellowstone River to celebrate the start of flyfishing season and the search for the elusive cutthroat trout. The river is usually populated with more fish than people. But Opening Day is a major social event. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports for Morning Edition.

Jordan declares a day of mourning Thursday following a series of suicide bombings in Amman that left more than 50 people dead. Three hotels were targeted and one of the explosions occurred at a wedding banquet, where most of the casualties occurred.

President Bush begins his second term, urging Americans to expand the frontiers of freedom around the world and challenging young people in particular to "serve in a cause larger than your wants." The speech was the centerpiece of a day devoted to tradition and tribute.

A car bomb explodes near the Baghdad police station, wounding at least 14 people and damaging the offices of the U.S.-appointed police chief. The blast comes four days after an explosion at a Najaf mosque killed a top Shiite cleric and at least 80 others. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson and Fawaz Gerges of Sarah Lawrence College.

President Clinton is on his final campaign trip, and doesn't plan to return to Washington until after the election. The president is in Michigan, Colorado and Arizona. Since the polls show him with a solid lead over Bob Dole, Mr. Clinton is concentrating on helping congressional candidates, and encouraging people to vote on Election Day, even if they think the race is already over. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Kigali on the relief community's efforts to resettle the roughly half-million Rwandan refugees who have returned from Zaire over the past few days. United Nations officials say that the process has been relatively orderly, given the massive numbers of people who suddenly started pouring across the border last Friday.

One thousand years ago in villages throughout Spain, townspeople would gather to hear the news of the day in an epic poem that would last all night. These were poems of war and hardship, of broken hearts and greatest love. Today these poems echo in Spanish ballads known as the alabados, hymns of praise and lamentation that evoke a people's intimacy with God. Kat Snow of member station KUER has a report.