Jan. 8 - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is sentenced to 240 years in prison. "I am a terrorist, and I am proud of it," Yousef tells a New York court.

Jan. 13 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein blocks a United Nations weapons inspection team, led by American Scott Ritter, from investigating "sensitive" government-controlled sites for evidence of illegal biological, chemical or nuclear weapons technology.

Jan. 16 - NASA announces that John Glenn, who in 1962 was the first American to orbit the Earth, has become its "newest and oldest astronaut." The 76-year-old senator will board the space shuttle Discovery in October as a payload specialist.

Jan. 16 - Three federal judges secretly grant Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether President Clinton and Vernon Jordan urged a former White House intern named Monica Lewinsky to lie, in a signed affidavit, about her relationship with Clinton. Lewinsky's January 7 affidavit was part of a sexual harrassment suit against Clinton by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

Jan. 16 - Philip Morris Companies and other cigarette manufacturers agree to pay the state of Texas about $15 billion over 25 years in the largest-ever tobacco settlement. Texas had sued to recover medicaid money spent on smoking-related illnesses. Since 1994, 40 states and Puerto Rico have filed lawsuits against the tobacco industry.

Jan. 17 - Paula Jones's lawyers question President Clinton for nearly six hours regarding allegations of sexual misconduct. During the session, Clinton denies under oath having "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.

Jan. 21 - Internet rumors propel Clinton's alleged affair with Lewinsky into a full-blown scandal. Major news orgainzations report on Starr's expanded investigation and audiotapes his office received from former White House aide Linda Tripp. Tripp secretly recorded conversations with Lewinsky that include intimate details of Lewinsky's relationship with the President. Clinton tells PBS,"I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship."

Jan. 25 - Ther Denver Broncos upset the Green Bay Packers 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII. It is a dream come true for the Broncos' brilliant quarterback John Elway, 37, who had been haunted by three Super Bowl losses.

Jan. 27 - Appearing on NBC's Today, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton call the Lewinsky scandal the product of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." The previous night, wagging his finger at television cameras, President Clinton had delivered his most memorable denial to date: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never.

Jan. 29 - A homemade bomb kills an off-duty police officer outside the entrance to an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., and seriously injures a nurse. Within weeks, Eric Robert Rudolph, 31, becomes the FBI's sole suspect and the target of a colossal manhunt in North Carolina.

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