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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismisses claims the United States was unprepared for the ground war in Iraq and says there will be no delay in the push toward Baghdad. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tom Ricks of The Washington Post.

The body of American hostage Paul Johnson is found in Saudi Arabia. Militant Islamists claiming ties to al Qaeda said they were responsible for beheading the Lockheed Martin worker, who was taken captive Saturday. President Bush denounces Johnson's killers as "barbaric." Hear an NPR News report.

The Bush administration says it is imposing economic sanctions against 14 senior officials of Myanmar's government. Robert Siegel talks with David Cortright, author of Sanctions Decade and scholar at the University of Notre Dame, about the impact of sanctions on the regime in Myanmar.

President Bush is expected to name Paul Bremer, a former State Department official, as Iraq's civil administrator. The move could be a sign that Secretary of State Colin Powell's influence over postwar Iraq policy is rising. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

In a surprise policy change, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to speed the vetting of sponsors so that more migrant children can be released from custody.

And there are just 15 years to accomplish them. Here's a rundown of the 17 aims, which include ending poverty, hunger and AIDS, fixing the environment and giving everyone access to green space.

Medicare pays more than $16 billion a year for hospice services. But a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services says hospice patients don't always get the care they're promised.

Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States.

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