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Officials say D-N-A evidence used to connect a suspect to a series of rapes sat untested for more than two years because authorities didn't have money to…

A U.N. envoy who met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says there will be a Syrian timetable early next week for withdrawal from Lebanon. The U.S., France and Russia are among nations pressing Syria to remove its troops.

U.N. weapons inspectors, foreign diplomats and journalists leave Baghdad in anticipation of possible war. In Kuwait, about 235,000 U.S. troops and 45,000 British troops move into position and prepare for a possible invasion of Iraq. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is perhaps the best known rap group to ever come out of Cleveland. Now, some of its members are channeling their hometown in a new...

Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann.

When another earthquake shook Indonesia Monday, the United Nations, Red Cross and other humanitarian groups quickly responded. U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland discusses how he directs the flow of billions of dollars of aid money into the disaster-struck region.

Secretary of State Colin Powell for the first time labels as genocide the atrocities Arab militias are committing against black African farmers in western Sudan. Powell spoke as the United States is proposing a U.N. resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Also: Minnesota officials won't release videos of a fatal police shooting of a black man; U.N. Secretary General Ban won't visit North Korea; and a Hawaiian court halts a controversial telescope.

Also: The U.S. flies bombers over South Korea again in a show of force; the U.N. holds a meeting on drug-resistant bacteria; and "L.A. Confidential" director Curtis Hanson dies.

Militants struck police stations and a power station in the northern city. In Mosul, the U.N. says it is concerned ISIS may be using civilians as human shields as Iraqi forces advance.