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Earlier this year, the U.S. government launched Al Hurra, an Arabic-language news and information channel that broadcasts to the Middle East and North Africa. The channel has gained some fans, but still struggles to dispel the notion that it is a U.S. propaganda outlet. Hear NPR's Steve Inkseep.

American airstrikes destroy a house in Fallujah that U.S. authorities say was used by fighters linked to al Qaeda. At least 20 people died. U.S. officials say it was a safe house for fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born militant. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook and NPR's Deborah Amos.

Former President Bill Clinton says he tried to separate his "personal mistakes" in the Monica Lewinsky scandal from his battle to fight an "illegitimate" impeachment over efforts to conceal his affair with the White House intern. Clinton's remarks come in part two an interview with NPR's Juan Williams in conjunction with the release of his new autobiography, My Life.

The body of a South Korean hostage beheaded by militants in Iraq is found, a day after the deadline set by his captors for South Korea to cancel a plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq. The U.S. military says troops found 33-year-old Kim Sun-il's beheaded body Tuesday evening, west of Baghdad. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Emily Harris.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Edward Wong of The New York Times about an assassination threat aimed at the interim prime minister for Iraq, Iyad Allawi. The threat came in a taped message on a radical Islamic Web site one day after the beheading of a South Korean translator by radical Islamic militants, who demanded South Korea abandon its plan to add troops to the U.S.-led military coalition.

The Bush administration releases scores of documents laying out its policies on interrogating detainees, amid bad publicity over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The White House says the documents show a policy of treating detainees humanely. But critics note the absence of any memos from the State Department, which analysts say expressed grave concerns about the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Hear NPR's Jackie Northam.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Dan Murphy of The Christian Science Monitor about a series of deadly, coordinated bomb attacks across Iraq and efforts by the U.S.-led military coalition to suppress Iraqi insurgents.

A ruling by a federal appeals court in Philadelphia thwarts the media ownership deregulation package passed by the Federal Communications Commission in June 2003. The FCC had loosened rules governing the number of television and radio stations a single company could own in the same market. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Jim Zarroli.

The panel investigating the attack on the Capitol asked U.S. Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama and Ronny Jackson of Texas to appear. They all said no.

CIA director George Tenet defends intelligence his agency compiled on Iraq. Reacting to weeks of public accusations that a major intelligence failure had preceded the war in Iraq, Tenet insists the CIA never twisted its assessments of Iraq's military capabilities to suit political concerns. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.