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The Pentagon reports U.S. forces are rolling through key areas in Iraq with little sign of Republican Guard units. A week of heavy bombing has weakened some guard divisions, but military officials say they've seen few surrenders. The Pentagon says it's not clear what Iraq's strategy is, and warns again that the toughest fighting lies ahead. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

The U.S. military investigates the possibility that an American Patriot missile caused the crash of a Navy F/A-18. U.S. forces are searching near Karbala for the pilot of the downed fighter jet. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer.

Worries over the respiratory illness known as SARS are hurting business in New York's Chinatown. Residents are canceling trips to visit relatives in Asia, and restaurants are seeing fewer patrons. Fred Mogul of member station WNYC reports.

Soldiers with the Army's 101st Airborne Division discover what they believe to be an Iraqi storage site for chemical warheads, U.S. commander says. Describing the discovery as a potential "smoking gun," the official says soldiers found in a warehouse outside Baghdad about 20 medium-range rockets with warheads containing sarin and mustard gases. Hear NPR's John Burnett.

U.S. military authorities investigate reports that American planes mistakenly dropped bombs on a convoy of U.S. Special Forces and Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq. Eighteen Kurds were killed, and dozens more were wounded. All Things Considered guest host John Ydstie talks with NPR's Ivan Watson about the attack.

U.S. tanks re-enter Baghdad as U.S.-led warplanes continue 24-hour patrol missions over the Iraqi capital. Iraqi officials call for a nighttime curfew, but the U.S. military says troops will ignore the ban and "go wherever and whenever we want." And as U.S. forces mass on the outskirts of Baghdad, civilians flee the city. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer and NPR's Anne Garrels.

British paratroopers enter Basra, and the main opposition in that city appears to have been subdued, though pockets of resistance remain. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Reuters reporter Rosalind Russell who's near Basra in southern Iraq. Russell says the British were received well by most of the people.

NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with three winners of the Pulitzer prize, whose works of biography, history and music center on remembrance. She speaks to Robert Caro, winner of the Pulitzer for Biography for his book, Master of the Senate, Rick Atkinson, winner of the Pulitzer for History for his book, An Army at Dawn, and John Adams, winner of the Pulitzer for music for his composition, "On the Transmigration of Souls."

In central Baghdad, U.S. forces surround at least one presidential palace and move toward the Information Ministry. In southern Iraq, British troops consolidate their hold on Basra, where they reportedly find the body of "Chemical Ali," an Iraqi general who allegedly ordered poison gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds in 1988. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer and NPR's Eric Westervelt.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on an anti-war demonstration today in Oakland, Calif., that police put down using non-lethal bullets, beanbags and concussion grenades. Several dockworkers who were not part of the demonstration were injured; they say the police used too much force.