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The African Union says a number of Burundian peacekeepers were killed in Tuesday's attack by Islamic extremist rebels who targeted a remote military base in Somalia.

Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) have campaigned in Florida -- a state that proved decisive in the 2000 presidential election. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with journalists Tom Fiedler and Carl Wernicke about how the presidential election will play out this year. Fiedler is the executive editor of the Miami Herald and Wernicke is the opinion page editor of the Pensacola New Journal.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that extending the combat tours of some U.S. soldiers in Iraq will cost several hundred million extra dollars. The White House's 2005 budget curently includes no funding request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Concerns are growing among members of Congress from both parties about the overall cost of military operations in Iraq. NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Charles Osgood about his upcoming book Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack, a memoir of one childhood year during World War II.

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with the 10-member bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Members of the commission say they heard some new information during the closed-door meeting but would not specify what that information is. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

A year ago Saturday, President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major combat in Iraq. But renewed fighting has forced the president to reframe that message, and opponents of the administration's policy on Iraq have become increasingly vocal in the Senate. NPR's David Welna reports.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

With videos and more photos expected to emerge of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, the scandal "could get worse before it gets better," Secretary of State Colin Powell says. Hear NPR's Juan Williams' extended interview with Powell.

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice briefs House and Senate Republicans on the situation in Iraq. The closed-door briefing comes near the end of a series of Congressional hearings examining troop deployment extensions, military costs and the planned June 30 transfer of power to an Iraqi government. Rice also met with some Senate Democrats in a meeting that was arranged at the last minute. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

In the second part of our series about the rise of professional shoplifting, we hear from the FBI's Dan Wright about how organized groups of thieves carry out their crimes. U.S. businesses lose an estimated $15 billion to shoplifting each year. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley.