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NPR's Melissa Block reports that with the New York Yankees in the World Series for the first time since 1981, Yankee fans are thrilled. Some optimistic ticket-seekers were still waiting in line today outside Yankee Stadium. Scalped tickets, many of them counterfeit, are being sold for hundreds of dollars; ticket brokers are getting as much as $1800 for box seats. Souvenir stands are doing landmark business on Derek Jeter t-shirts and Yankees caps. And most fans say owner George Steinbrenner should quit talking about moving the team, and leave the Bronx Bombers in the Bronx, in the House That Ruth Built.

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes along party lines to endorse Miguel Estrada for a federal circuit court post. He's the first judicial nominee sent to the full Senate under Republican management. Democrats say Estrada's record doesn't merit a lifetime appointment and hint at a filibuster to defeat him. NPR's David Welna reports.

Henry Richard, 20, crossed the finish line Monday in honor of his late brother Martin, who at eights years old, was the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Spooked advertisers are steering their more controversial ads away from the Super Bowl and featuring them online. While the broadcast line-up will include family-friendly spots with patriotic themes and the Muppets, the Internet has become the destination for those seeking edgier advertising.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, the film Snakes on a Plane has generated legions of fans on the Internet long before its scheduled release this summer. The fan base has grown so large that New Line Cinema has added new scenes based on suggestions from enthusiasts.

Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.

Shoji Morimoto waited at a marathon finish line to cheer on a runner. He's gone to dinner with clients who don't want to eat alone. He even accompanied someone to their surgery consultation.

The entire show — from learning lines, choreography, making costumes, etc., was completed in less than 10 hours. They started Sunday morning and put on Return to the Forbidden Planet that evening.

Calvin Stanley was desperate to get rid of a loose tooth. He tried a bow and arrow with dental floss. Next he tried fishing line. It worked. His dad told KRT-TV that it took an hour to find the tooth.

The Showtime cable series Dead Like Me, about the Grim Reapers who live among us to escort the newly dead to their reward, has returned for a second season on Sunday nights. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to the show's executive producer, John Masius, about the evolution of the series and future story lines.

Two people were injured after the waterspout came ashore Friday afternoon as a strong line of storms moved through the greater Tampa Bay region. More storms are expected this weekend.

A U.S. government plan to restore confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would temporarily raise the Treasury Department's credit line to the two mortgage financiers. The idea is to shore up the companies' finances and keep money flowing to the mortgage market. What does this mean for mortgage holders and taxpayers?

Florida lawmakers continued moving forward Wednesday with a proposal that could help nurses practice across state lines.

It had originally planned cruises out of Port Canaveral and Miami.

NPR's David Baron reports that a massive flood of black water and house-sized icebergs burst out of a glacier in southeastern Iceland today, spilling across a 20-mile swath of coastline. The flood has destroyed a road, bridges, and utility lines, and it's disrupted fishing off the coast. Scientists had predicted the flood would occur, after a volcano erupted under Iceland's largest ice cap. But the torrent is bigger and is growing faster than anticipated.

Mickey Edwards on Newt Gingrich's current troubles. He says it was the speaker himself who has been so boisterous about putting Congress on a higher moral plane. The investigation of his college course suggests that he may have dipped below that plane. But because Gingrich played such an important role in bringing the GOP to the table, unless the Republicans come up with a new line of succession, they may find that Newt, with all his faults, may be indispensable.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Moscow on the Russian presidential campaign. Russian President Boris Yeltsin today used the power of his incumbency to fire some hard-line generals, sign a decree to pull Russian troops out of Chechnya and sent money to some miners so they'll get paid before the run-off election. Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov has been nearly invisible, but appears to be positioning himself for a role in the government if he loses to Yeltsin. Russian voters go to the polls a week from tomorrow to choose between Yeltsin and Zyuganov for the presidency of that nation.

Today, the House voted to override President Clinton's veto of a bill banning some late-term abortions. The 285-137 vote was in line with the margin by which the House passed the bill last spring. The Senate vote at that time was well short of the two-thirds margin that would be needed to complete the override. Opponents of the type of abortion described in the bill call the procedure a "partial birth" abortion and say it is immoral. Defenders of the practice say it is sometimes the only procedure available to protect a woman's health. NPR's Brian Naylor reports on today's vote.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on a bid by minority groups for the Census Bureau to release both the official 2000 census and the figures that include estimates of people the census takers missed. The bureau intends to release both numbers, but the incoming Bush administration could block release of the data compiled with statistical sampling techniques. Positions on the issue have typically broken along partisan lines, with Democrats supporting the enhanced figures. Republicans tend to say "sampling" adds population to Democratic-leaning areas. GOP members also say the basic headcount is more in keeping with the founders' intent for the census.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports President George W Bush and his team have promised a tough line against Iraq. That commitment is setting up what looks like the Administration's first foreign policy challenge. U.S. officials say Saddam Hussein has rebuilt facilities for manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and is preparing for illegal oil exports. The new Bush Administration may feel compelled to move against the Iraqi regime, but its military options are highly limited.

Each night this week on All Things Considered, reporter Deborah Amos is covering the sixty-billion-dollar illegal drug trade in the United States. Today, in the second part of the series, Amos reports on the role Mexico plays in the drug war. Sixty-percent of cocaine on the American market now comes from the United States' southern neighbor. The front lines of the battle are in border towns like Tijuana. There's more at http://www.npr.org/news/specials/drugwars/.

We learn about what old sounds can and can't be restored. Sound restorer Steve Smolian demonstrates how he goes about his job using materials provided by Quest for Sound line callers as part of Lost and Found Sound. From listener Laurie Baker's little sister singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful" to listener Martha Platt's grandmother speaking in Swedish - Smolian uses his talent and specialized equipment to bring back long lost voices.

Howard Dean says Wisconsin's Feb. 17 primary is critical for his campaign, although earlier this week he said he will not drop out if he loses in the state. Wisconsin's open primary system allows voters to cross party lines to participate, but it's unclear whether that will help rivals of frontrunner Sen. John Kerry. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and Craig Gilbert of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Fifty-two seconds of video on a fetching city bat, and a listener's pitch for Marnie Stern's "Every Single Line Means Something."

When the line dropped, 911 dispatchers investigated. They found no prime suspects, but a primate suspect. A Capuchin monkey had made the call after grabbing a phone from a nearby golf cart.