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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, where ethnic Albanian militants have been waging an insurgency. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is demanding that the United Nations and NATO peacekeepers stop the insurgents from crossing from Kosovo into the buffer zone along the border with Serbia proper. At the same time, Kostunica has taken steps to improve relations with the majority ethnic Albanian population in the Presevo Valley. The U.N. Security Council meets tomorrow to discuss the issue.

Before departing Texas for Washington, D.C., Bush named Stanford professor Condoleezza Rice his national security adviser and Justice Alberto Gonzales to the White House counsel's job. Rice, who served as a national security aide in the administration of former President Bush, is the second black to be named to George W. Bush's foreign policy team. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

A commentary from Gwen Glenn, a Washington, DC based Journalist. As an African- American, she shares why she took the past five weeks of election confusion very personally.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the difficulty many small towns have recruiting volunteer firefighters. Many potential volunteers must commute to other areas for work, and are unable to respond quickly to emergency calls. Others find the demand on their personal time hard to deal with. Some municipalities are adding to a few paid firefighters to their volunteer staffs, but even that solution has its drawbacks.

Commentator Rich Galen is pleased that the Presidential election finally has been decided. He says things could have gotten a whole lot messier if the election dispute had played out much longer.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that civil rights groups and people who've sued the Los Angeles police department over racial profiling want to become monitors of the city's consent decree, which is designed to reform the L.A.P.D. With President-elect Bush on the record opposing such decrees, they are concerned that an appointed federal monitor won't effectively enforce the city's agreement.

Hershel Felder's one-man show on George Gershwin closed last night in on Sunday. The show is now headed to Broadway. NPR's Renee Montagne reports.

As part of National Geographic's Radio Expeditions, NPR's Alex Chadwick checks in on African ecologist Mike Fay. Fay just completed a treacherous conservation walk through Central Africa to the coast of Gabon.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that Israelis and Palestinians are in Washington for separate talks with US officials. The goal is to restart the stalled Mideast peace process.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on President-Elect George W. Bush's trip to Washington. Yesterday, he met at the capitol with leaders of both parties from the House and Senate. Bush says he still plans to send an education reform bill to Congress after he takes office, and he will also pursue a large tax cut, though some Republican leaders seem wary of it.