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Members of the commission investigating the U.S. government's response to terrorism before and after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are calling on Vice President Dick Cheney to provide any information the administration may have supporting its continued claim of links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook and NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

Earlier this year, the U.S. government launched Al Hurra, an Arabic-language news and information channel that broadcasts to the Middle East and North Africa. The channel has gained some fans, but still struggles to dispel the notion that it is a U.S. propaganda outlet. Hear NPR's Steve Inkseep.

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's David Kestenbaum, reporting from the Mojave Desert site of the launch of SpaceShipOne, the first commercial space flight. Officials are still checking radar data to confirm the final altitude -- but unofficially, SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded rocket ship to carry a human into space Monday morning. The final stage of the flight soared approximately 62 miles high, past the "official" mile marker for the edge of space.

Months of bad news from Iraq have hurt President Bush's standing, with a new NPR poll of likely voters giving him a 50-percent approval rating, down from 53 percent in March. The poll also shows President Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in a statistical dead heat. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

The body of a South Korean hostage beheaded by militants in Iraq is found, a day after the deadline set by his captors for South Korea to cancel a plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq. The U.S. military says troops found 33-year-old Kim Sun-il's beheaded body Tuesday evening, west of Baghdad. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Emily Harris.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR's Mandalit del Barco about the U.S. Border Patrol's recent roundup of undocumented immigrants, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The sweeps are creating panic in some immigrant Latino communities, and activists are calling the operation racial profiling. Border Patrol officials say their officers are just doing their jobs.

The Bush administration releases scores of documents laying out its policies on interrogating detainees, amid bad publicity over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The White House says the documents show a policy of treating detainees humanely. But critics note the absence of any memos from the State Department, which analysts say expressed grave concerns about the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Hear NPR's Jackie Northam.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled it would not order Vice President Dick Cheney to reveal information about the White House energy task force. NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about where the case goes from here, and the likely implications for other cases before the court.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the latest Conference Board study showing American workers can expect an average salary increase of 3.5 percent this year -- the same rate as last year.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Dan Murphy of The Christian Science Monitor about a series of deadly, coordinated bomb attacks across Iraq and efforts by the U.S.-led military coalition to suppress Iraqi insurgents.