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President Bush adddressed an audience at the dedication of a museum devoted to the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil. Today marks the opening of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center.

The Census Bureau announced today that the population has continued its shift south and west. The new population center -- that is, the point with equal populations to its north, south, east and west-- is in Phelps County, Mo. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

The United States Army will load its M-16 rifles with a new kind of ammunition -- bullets that are lead-free. Noah Adams talks with Michael Dette, chief of technology demonstration at the Army Environmental Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.

The city council in Charlottesville, Va., has approved the installation of a giant blackboard downtown for anyone to write on. It will be a monument to free speech. Noah Adams talks with Joshua Wheeler, associate director for the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Many Hurricane Katrina evacuees have returned to their homes to discover infestations of mold. Michael Rinaldi, director of the Fungus Testing Laboratory at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, explains how mold develops and how it can cause structural damage to homes.

At the center of the war-torn city of Kandahar, Afghanistan is a shrine said to hold a cloak once worn by the Prophet Mohammed himself. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the symbolic power of Afghanistan's holiest Muslim site. worn by the Prophet Mohammed himself.

Suzanne McCabe witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center from a commuter ferry.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports growing numbers of Kurds are leaving the oil center of Kirkuk. Iraqi security forces there have staged a security clampdown ahead of an anticipated attack by the United States.

NPR's John Burnett, traveling with the Marine 1st Division in Iraq, reports on the troops' rations, called Meals Ready to Eat, which become the center of life in a combat zone when bullets aren't flying.

Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports from New York on plans to rebuild on the site of the World Trade Center. In the months following the tragedy, New Yorkers channeled some of their grief into influencing the future of the site. The resulting design is the result of unprecedented public participation.