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Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.

Daniel spends an afternoon watching the national sport of the Island of Puerto Rico...Cock Fighting. Daniel discusses the official rules of combat, judging, and the methods of training to get the roosters in shape for fighting. He even does a play by play.

Daniel talks with brain surgeon Richard Fraser of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 130 years ago Friday. Fraser maintains that the bullet John Wilkes Booth fired would have disabled the president but need not have killed him. Shoddy medical care, even by nineteenth century standards, served only to worsen the dire situation.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest in the investigation of the bombing last week in Oklahoma city. Authorities are pursuing leads across the country in an effort to find the suspect John Doe #2 and any others with potential links to the blast.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

Jacki talks with former senator John Danforth about the need for social security reform. Danforth says that by the year 2029, if not before, the social security program will be bankrupt and that entitlement programs will consume all federal taxes. Danforth faults politicians for not having the courage to stake their political futures on addressing this issue.

Jacki talks with James Bicknell of Seattle about his marketing kits that will store DNA. DNA is the genetic code in chromosomes of living plants and animals. Every living thing has a unique and distinct code. Bicknell is selling kits for people to save their DNA for future reference...maybe thousands of years.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports that there's an answer to the great infant formula mystery. The mystery opened a year ago, when strange reports began coming in from all over the country. Men and boys were walking into discount stores, and buying cartloads of baby formula with fists full of cash. Suspicious police called in the F-B-I, the customs service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the State Department and the Immigration Service. But no one figured out why baby formula was such a hot commodity. Until now.

President Clinton today approved an undisclosed plan to ease the U.S. - Japanese trade relations after talks between the two countries broke down. The plan, which was approved by the President's National Economic Council aims to force open Japanese markets. Carol-Anne Clark-Kelly reports.

On this mother's day, we share this story by writer Bev Donofrio. She recalls a mother's day holiday in the 1970's, when she and some women friends went out for a picnic and baseball game with their kids. The moral: it's tough to be a mom...but it has it's good sides too.