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U.S. troops seize Baghdad's main airport, 12 miles outside the city. Pentagon officials are pleased with the gains made, but still fear stronger opposition as they move forward. Saddam Hussein appears on TV to exhort the people of Baghdad to fight back. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Nick Spicer.

Bob Hope, master of the one-liner and world-famous comedian, dies of pneumonia at 100. A star in vaudeville, radio, television and film, Hope helped define the monologue. He was best known for entertaining U.S. troops at bases around the world. Pat Dowell has a remembrance.

An American soldier dies in Baghdad after an attacker drops a grenade from an overpass onto a U.S. Humvee as it drives by. Meanwhile, U.S. forces are working to rebuild the health care system in Fallujah, a hotbed of Iraqi resistance. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

California voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to oust Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. The governor faces scores of candidates competing for his job, and there are two ballot measures. Election officials expect a record number of voters to show up at the polls. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

Lance Armstong enjoys strong prospects for winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France as the competition heads toward Sunday's finish in Paris. Melissa Block talks to former racer Frankie Andreu of the Outdoor Life Network.

President Bush says he takes personal responsibility for shortcomings in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, saying the storm had "exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government."

Vivian Malone Jones, the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Alabama, has died at age 63. Malone was one of the students Alabama Gov. George Wallace tried to block from entering the university in 1963.

Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling win the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on game theories that help explain economic conflicts, including trade and price wars.

In New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin says Hurricane Katrina has taken the lives of hundreds -- and most likely thousands -- of people in the city. Efforts to repair breached levees and floodwalls have been unsuccessful as a massive evacuation continues.

A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in northern Baghdad, killing at least 14 people. In southern Baghdad, insurgents attack a police station, killing at least six police officers and freeing more than 50 prisoners. Both attacks came around dawn. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.