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U.S. forces seek to remain focused on the military mission in Iraq as looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad and other cities abandoned by Saddam Hussein's government and security forces. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Baghdad.

U.S. Marines close in on Baghdad from the southeast, as the Iraqi army continues to take large losses and thousands more soldiers surrender. U.S. troops see no signs of major resistance, but sporadic fighting by Iraqi paramilitary forces continues to erupt outside the city. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Anissa Mack is turning pie into performance art in the heart of Brooklyn, evoking a folksy scene from a bygone era on a busy city street. People "snatch" the fresh treats from the window sill. For All Things Considered, NPR's Melissa Block joins the hungry crowds in front of Mack's tiny cottage on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library. View a photo gallery of Mack's "art" online.

Ten years after fire and violence rocked Los Angeles, Weekend Edition looks back on what happened and how the city has tried to recover. Scott Simon opens the hour from the corner of Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. A montage follows as Angelinos describe the events of ten years ago in their own words. Scott then explores the economic realities of south Los Angeles.

A decade after Los Angeles erupted in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, a four-part NPR series examines how the city has changed -- and how it hasn't. For Weekend Edition Saturday, Karen Grigsby Bates reports on how minority communities are changing in ways that couldn't have been predicted in 1992.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Peter Zwack, a retired brigadier general and former defense attaché serving in Russia, about the context of the struggle for this significant port city of Mariupol.

What is it like to be a musician in a city orchestra? Daniel Anker answers with Music from the Inside Out, a documentary that explores music by part and by whole via the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

From Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to the streets of downtown Los Angeles, pro-immigrant rallies are taking place in most major cities across America. In New York and elsewhere, marchers formed human chains. In Chicago, authorities estimated some 500,000 people marched.

San Francisco was rocked by one of the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit the United States 99 years ago Monday. However, the death toll from the quake and subsequent fires in the city -- officially 478 people -- is still a matter of debate.

British police make at least four arrests in connection with Thursday's bomb attacks in London. The arrests come along with news of a series of raids in the city of Leeds, in connection with the July 7 attacks on the London transit system.