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The oldest gauge for tracking stock prices topped 17,000 on Thursday, another in a string of records for the Dow Jones.

Pilot John Gregory crash landed his small plane on top of a tree in Idaho. He was rescued by a volunteer firefighter.

As the Bush administration considers war with Iraq, the Pentagon demands the nation's top law schools allow military recruiters on campus or risk losing government funding. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

The South Korean president-elect sends an official to Washington, D.C., amid heightening tensions over North Korea's suspected nuclear program. The envoy is expected to meet U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and other top officials. Hyun-Sung Khang reports.

Top U.N. nuclear monitor Mohamed ElBaradei increases pressure on Iraq to divulge information about weapons programs, saying Baghdad must answer questions about the 12,000-page report it gave the United Nations. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Jazz percussionist Mongo Santamaria dies on Feb. 1 at 85. Santamaria scored a Top-10 hit with his version of Herbie Hancock's jazz-funk classic "Watermelon Man" in 1963. He also wrote the song "Afro Blue," later performed and made famous by John Coltrane. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has a remembrance.

After 27 years of mostly losing seasons, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Oakland Raiders 48 to 21 in the Super Bowl. The favored Raiders came into the game with the league's top-ranked offense. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with NPR's Anne Garrels in Baghdad about Iraq's response to Secretary of State Powell's presentation at the Security Council today. Two of Saddam Hussein's top advisers were made available to reporters in the Iraqi capital shortly after Secretary Powell completed his presentation.

President-elect George W. Bush met today in Austin with top leaders from both parties on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. The group talked about the Bush administration's plans for re-energizing the nation's military. As a candidate for president, Bush said military morale could be improved with higher pay and a redefined mission. NPR's Steve Inskeep has this story.

A New Jersey state supreme court justice will not face impeachment proceedings. Justice Peter Verniero is accused of misleading the public about the use of racial profiling by state police, but a top lawmaker has said he will block any attempt at impeachment. Eugene Sonn reports from member station WHYY in Philadelphia.