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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.

People in the northeastern U.S. are digging out from the second Nor'easter in less than two weeks. The storm dumped up to two feet of snow on top of the three feet already left by a Christmas Day snowfall. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

Robert Siegel speaks with Mike Otterson, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, about the greater emphasis the church will put on having people refer to the religion as The Church of Jesus Christ, rather than the Mormon Church. It is still OK to call members "Mormons". The Church is timing the emphasis to next year's winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and is designed to remind the public the that they are a Christian Church.

A new wave of more than a dozen insurgent bombings in Iraq's capital leaves at least 29 people dead, including three U.S. soldiers. The attacks came just one day after a new government was unveiled.

At least a dozen people are shot dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a day before new talks between India and Pakistan on the disputed region. Islamist militants are blamed for the raid on a mountain village. Indian police say the dead are Muslims, and a three-year-old child was among the victims. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.