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Two Senate committees have found that U.S. Capitol Police and other authorities were in possession of more alarming intelligence clues ahead of the Jan. 6 attack than previously documented.

Demographers divide generations by birth year. But each group has also been shaped by the news, music and major cultural events of its era. So what really distinguishes a baby boomer from a Generation Xer, a millennial from a member of the silent generation? Share your defining moments.

John Buckland and Troy Marcum of Milton, W. Va., are heroes. By the way, they were dressed like superheroes. WCHS-TV reports the two men were mentoring children at an American Legion Post wearing Batman and Captain America costumes when they saw smoke and rushed to the house.

The award is for politicians who made unpopular decisions but they believed to be right. In 1990, Bush broke his own no new taxes pledge and accepted higher taxes to cut the federal deficit.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that Mexico's President-elect Vicente Fox is on a two-day visit to Washington to present his proposals on trade, immigration and drug trafficking. Fox defeated the ruling party's candidate, President Ernesto Zedillo, in a July election. He supports opening borders as a way of addressing illegal immigration and helping to develop Mexico's economy. US business and labor leaders are unenthusiastic, but President Clinton has said he wants to hear more about Fox's ideas before expressing an opinion. In addition to visiting President Clinton, Fox met with Vice President Gore and plans a similar session tomorrow with Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the latest fund-raising investigation by the Justice Department that may have implications for the Gore campaign. The New York Times reported this morning of a 1995 discussion in which Vice President Gore was asked to make a fundraising call to a Texas trial lawyer -- around the time President Clinton was preparing to veto GOP-passed tort reform legislation that would limit lawsuit awards. The White House says Gore never made the call, but documents show a marked increase in contributions to the Democratic Party by the lawyer and his law firm since Mr. Clinton vetoed the bill. George W. Bush, campaigning in California, said Gore "may have crossed a serious line" with his actions.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including tape of one of the sniper suspects calling the Rockville, Md., Police Department; Baton Rouge, La., Police Chief Pat Englade; Attorney General John Ashcroft; Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates; the announcement that former Vice President Walter Mondale will replace the late Sen. Paul Wellstone on the ballot as Minnesota's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate; former Vice President Mondale; Mondale's opponent, Republican Norm Coleman; and President George W. Bush.

Music critic Charles de Ledesma reviews a new three CD set called "Outernational Metldown." Since the policy of aaprtheid ended in South Africa, the indigenous music of the townships and squatter camps has become less ghettoized, and now is being heard by a more internationasl audience. A team of musicians from London went to the new South Africa and teamed up with many local musicians famous only in their native lands. They recorded a series of sessions, now featured on these three CDs, just now released in the United States. STATIONS NOTE: "Outernational Meltdown" is produced by B&W Music; for information, call Scott Taves at 312-880-5375.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Michael Waltrip, the winner of Sunday's Daytona 500, on the late Dale Earnhardt; racing fan Cecil Inman; Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Louis Freeh on Robert Philip Hanssen who was arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia; Steve Gottlieb, founder and president of TVT Records, and Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Eminem and Elton John performing Stan at Wednesday night's Grammy ceremony; Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat, New York) and President George W. Bush.

Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes announced over the weekend that he will enter the Illinois Senate race against Democrat Barack Obama. NPR's Juan Williams speaks with Steve Rauschenberger, a conservative Republican state senator in Illinois, who pushed for the Keyes nomination. Williams will also talk about bare-knuckle politics with Wayne Slater, a senior political writer for The Dallas Morning News and co-author of the book, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential.