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Pentagon officials acknowledge that extending the combat tours of some U.S. soldiers in Iraq will cost several hundred million extra dollars. The White House's 2005 budget curently includes no funding request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Concerns are growing among members of Congress from both parties about the overall cost of military operations in Iraq. NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports.

Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) have campaigned in Florida -- a state that proved decisive in the 2000 presidential election. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with journalists Tom Fiedler and Carl Wernicke about how the presidential election will play out this year. Fiedler is the executive editor of the Miami Herald and Wernicke is the opinion page editor of the Pensacola New Journal.

Woodward's new book Plan of Attack is a behind-the-scenes look at how and why the Bush administration decided to wage war in Iraq. Woodward interviewed more than 70 government officials for the book, including President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Woodward is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Bush at War and his first, All the President's Men, written in 1974 with Carl Bernstein about Watergate.

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with the 10-member bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Members of the commission say they heard some new information during the closed-door meeting but would not specify what that information is. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

A year ago Saturday, President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major combat in Iraq. But renewed fighting has forced the president to reframe that message, and opponents of the administration's policy on Iraq have become increasingly vocal in the Senate. NPR's David Welna reports.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

With videos and more photos expected to emerge of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, the scandal "could get worse before it gets better," Secretary of State Colin Powell says. Hear NPR's Juan Williams' extended interview with Powell.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Charles Osgood about his upcoming book Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack, a memoir of one childhood year during World War II.

In the second part of our series about the rise of professional shoplifting, we hear from the FBI's Dan Wright about how organized groups of thieves carry out their crimes. U.S. businesses lose an estimated $15 billion to shoplifting each year. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley.

Film critic David Edelstein considers the new film Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington, and revenge films in general.