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The National Weather Service has warned people in several cities, including Phoenix and Miami, to avoid the sun over the coming days as temperatures climb to life-threatening numbers.

President Bush welcomes the 10 members of the Iraq Study Group to the Roosevelt Room in the White House, where he received a preview of the recommendations they will offer for U.S. policy in rebuilding Iraq.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman died Thursday at the age of 94. He is famous for pioneering ideas about free markets and individual freedoms.

As Democrats prepare to take the reins of Congress, changes in legislative initiatives can be expected across a broad spectrum of issues -- from U.S. policy in Iraq to health care and the environment. NPR reporters weigh in on what to expect from the new Democratic majority.

A growing number of illegal immigrants in the United States are children who've come alone. The U.S. approach to these children is conflicted: Immigration officials still work to deport them, even as Health and Human Services operates a network of shelters to care for them.

Melissa Block talks with New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. Kristof just returned from eastern Chad, where he was reporting on the violence that has spread there from Darfur. Kristof has chastised the international community for its lack of action in the region; the United Nations has recognized the events as genocide.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will step down and former CIA Director Robert Gates has been nominated to replace him at the Pentagon. Iraqi National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie talks about how the shift at the Pentagon will might change efforts to combat violence in the country.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill have raised the possibility of holding up congressional funding for the war in Iraq. But even some Democrats who are opposed to the conflict say it would be impractical to cut off funds.

The big question tonight in Baghdad is whether Saddam Hussein is on his way to the gallows. There were reports today that U.S. forces had turned the former dictator over to Iraqi authorities. That was not supposed to happen until just before Saddam's execution.

A new book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.