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All Things Considered has asked a number of people what might lie ahead for the eventual winner of the 2000 presidential election, and for the country. Commentator Drew Westen says his research on President Clinton's impeachment indicates both the eventual outcome, and the public response to it, will be influenced by people's "internal spin." He says people tend unconsciously to twist the facts into emotionally satisfying conclusions.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that a powerful earthquake has killed more than two thousand people in India, and the death toll is expected to rise. The epicenter was in the city of Bhuj in the western state of Gujarat, close to India's border with Pakistan. Hospitals in Gujarat have been flooded with injured people. Rescue workers are using chain saws and their bare hands, as they to reach people believed to be trapped in rubble.

NPR's Richard Knox reports on new evidence that anti-HIV drugs are restoring the immune systems of people who had lost nearly all protection against infection. Two studies in this week's New England Journal of Medicine show that most people on so-called combination therapy for HIV no longer need to take drugs to prevent a type of pneumonia that often strikes people with weakened immune systems.

Each year, Reno, Nev., has several months of below-freezing temperatures. A longtime advocate for homeless people in the city has established a warming center that offers a safe place to stay.

The state's COVID-19 case ratio has dropped for the third consecutive week, down to the lowest rate the state has seen in six months.

Millions of people take aspirin to avoid heart attacks and strokes, but it doesn't work for everyone. Researchers say they've found a group of genes that could be used to identify people who aren't helped by aspirin. The question is whether there are other remedies that would help.

Indigenous People's Day is becoming a more widely recognized holiday around the country. Two educators share how they approach teaching people about the significance of the day.

Police in Chechnya have reportedly detained more than 100 gay men. Some have been tortured. Steve Inskeep to Shaun Walker, a reporter with The Guardian in Moscow, about the detainments.

There's only one health department in Alabama where people can go to be tested for tuberculosis. That's in Perry County, where an outbreak claimed three lives in 2015. For every 100,000 people there, 253 would be infected; normally in Alabama it's only 2.5. Now, health officials are trying to get handle on the disease. But it hasn't been easy, so officials there decided to take a new approach.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, about what appears to be a rise in incidents involving unruly airline passengers.