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Hurricane Rita comes ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border, blasting Lake Charles, La., with 120-mph winds. The Category 3 storm threatens a wide swath of the two states, but will pass well to the east of Houston.

A 1900 hurricane that left at least 6,000 people dead has had a long-lasting impact on Galveston, Texas. Paul Burka, a Galveston native who is senior executive editor of Texas Monthly, tells Scott Simon about the storm.

The Biden administration is working to address the shortage of baby formula in the U.S. as it faces pressure in Congress to do more.

Roman Panchenko moved to Poland from Chernihiv a few years ago and was afraid of singing in the streets. But now, after the war started, he sings Ukrainian songs in a Warsaw plaza to help his country.

On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.

China's growing appetite for energy may be driving the bid for Unocal by the country's third-largest oil company. But it may take Wall Street's appetite for cash to drive home the deal's acceptance in the United States.

Architect Daniel Liebeskind's design for the new structure undergoes a facelift to include more safety precautions. Melissa Block talks with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

The dark comedy by David Hare chronicles the tangle of diplomatic maneuvers leading to the war. It hints that President Bush and top advisers intended to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11 attacks.

After nearly two and a half years, NASA is on the verge of launching a space shuttle. If weather permits, Discovery will blast into orbit Wednesday afternoon. The mission will service the international space station, but it is also an important symbolic step after the Columbia disaster of 2003.

President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, comes under scrutiny from critics who say Rove is the informant that leaked the identity of a CIA operative. The White House has defended Rove while Senate Democrats are saying he should be fired.