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Both the House and Senate are debating President Bush's request for $87 billion in additional money for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some lawmakers are trying to convert some of the aid money from outright grants into loans. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

A survey in southern Florida finds that you don't always get the fish you ordered at seafood restaurants. Less tasty, cheaper fish may well be masquerading as the dinner you thought you were getting.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff tells Steve Inskeep about the department's difficult mandate to protect all places at all times against an unpredictable enemy. Chertoff says the department relies on controversial risk analysis to determine where to invest its resources.

Utilities begin the process of rebuilding power lines and restoring electricity in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Charley. Hundreds of thousands of residents in the area around Port Charlotte remain without power. Utility officials warn it will take weeks to restore power completely. Hear NPR's Phillip Davis.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry complains that President Bush has not been entirely truthful in discussing the situation in Iraq. Sen. Kerry spoke to the National Guard Association in Las Vegas just two days after the president visited the group. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Protests over fighting in Najaf cloud the opening of a Baghdad conference to choose an interim national assembly. Shiite demands for Iraqi officials to resume truce talks with militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prompt the delegates to issue a call for Sadr's gunmen to abandon the shrine of the Imam Ali. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About Drug Companies. Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, disputes drug firms' claims that prices are high because profits are used for research and development. Hear Angell and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Most American cities and states are not ready for a major disaster, a new report to Congress says. Nearly five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- and 10 months after Hurricane Katrina -- the Department of Homeland Security found major shortcomings in emergency planning.

House Republicans push through a non-binding resolution formally declaring the occupation of Iraq part of the global fight against terrorism. The measure praises U.S. forces in Iraq and rejects the idea of a fixed date for withdrawing troops.

In the Indian state of Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government are up for re-election. Modi is the face of hardline Hindu nationalism. His administration is believed to have instigated some of the worst communal violence in India since the 1947 partition — the killing of 2,000 Muslims in 2002.