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In Chicago, the presidential vote decidedly favored Al Gore but now Chicagoans are increasingly at odds over how much farther the Vice President should push to win the White House. NPR's David Welna spoke today with some Chicago voters as they dropped off their children at a public elementary school in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. In addition to "football dads" who voted for Bush he found "soccer moms" who voted for Gore and are deeply divided about what he should do.

North Korea fails to respond to a White House offer to hold unconditional talks about its nuclear weapons program. Meanwhile, some military strategists say a U.S. strike against North Korea's nuclear complex is risky for South Korean residents and is unlikely. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

The nation's 108th Congress convenes Tuesday with a considerable hangover of unfinished business from its last session. Before adjourning, lawmakers failed to strike agreement on extending unemployment insurance for 750,000 jobless people. Hill-watchers also expect heavy lobbying from the White House for quick action on the administration's new economic stimulus package. NPR's David Welna reports.

NPR's David Welna traveled home with Kentucky Congressman Ken Lucas, the state's only Democratic representative in Washington, D.C. and reports on Lucas' meetings with his constituents. The visits came just days before President Bush was to address a joint session of Congress on his new budget proposals. Lucas, whose district voted for Bush, is one of the most conservative members of his own party, and is one of the Democrats whom the president is hoping to win over. The two-term House member says that he and his district are in sync on most of issues.

The House voted on Wednesday to censure Arizona Republican Paul Gosar for posting an animated video that depicting him killing New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The 20,000-square-foot house outside St. Louis also comes with a movie theater, bowling alley, water park, lazy river and stables. The asking price? $20 million.

The White House bestows the first Medal of Honor awarded for service in Iraq on Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, who was killed near the Baghdad airport two years ago Monday. Michele Norris talks with his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Thomas Smith, about Sgt. Smith and his actions that day.

Aquila al-Hashimi, a member of Iraq's interim governing council, dies in a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad of wounds sustained in an assassination attempt five days ago. Her death caps a day of violence, including a fatal explosion outside the hotel housing the staff of NBC News in Baghdad, and an ambush on a U.S. convoy in northern Iraq. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

Gen. Tommy Franks tells a House committee that U.S. troop strength in Iraq will remain at current levels until at least the end of the year. Franks, who directed U.S. forces during the war, acknowledges the possibility that U.S. troops could still be in Iraq four years from now. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

A car bombing outside the Baghdad hotel that houses the United Nations kills the driver and an Iraqi policeman. The attack is near the location of last month's bombing of U.N. offices that killed more than 20 people. The incident follows a weekend of violence in Iraq that left at least three U.S. soldiers dead and a leading member of the country's governing council seriously wounded. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.