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Four high school kids from western Phoenix and an underwater robot named Stinky beat out the nation's brightest students in the 2004 Marine Advanced Technology Education Center Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition.

The new civil administrator for Iraq, retired U.S. Gen. Jay Garner, receives a warm reception by Kurds in northern Iraq. Meanwhile, U.S. tanks move into the center of Mosul, a northern town that has seen looting and anarchy since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. NPR's Melissa Block talks with NPR's Ivan Watson in Baghdad.

The Biden administration plans to appeal the ruling if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decide there's a public health need. Until then, it's up to individual passengers to decide whether to mask up on most flights.

A New York City staircase has been listed as one of America's most endangered historic sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Patty Clark, left, and Kayla Bergeron escaped from the collapsing World Trade Center through these steps, now known as the "survivor" staircase.

Huge advances in hurricane prediction have been made in the years since Hurricane Andrew. NPR's Jon Hamilton is at the National Hurricane Center in Miami where researchers are tracking hurricane Frances and trying to predict where and how hard it will hit. He reports on the latest developments in hurricane science and technology - and why it's still proving so difficult to predict the intensity of the storm.

New data suggests charter school students are lagging behind their peers at public schools. That deals a blow to President Bush's education reforms, which offer charter schools as an alternative to "failing" public schools. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep, Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Jack Jennings of the Center on Education Policy.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman's famous New Yorker black magazine cover depicting the World Trade Center after Sept. 11 now forms the cover of his new book, a collection of cartoons about the attacks.

New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines say you don't have to quarantine if you have been exposed to COVID.

NASA released a sound from the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. What you'll hear is pressure waves emitted from the black hole causing ripples in the star cluster's hot gas.

City officials fired former Police Chief Sam Dobbins in July after the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting made public a 17-minute recording of him using racist and homophobic language as he boasted of killing 13 people in the line of duty.