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Al Qaeda's former leadership may have been dispersed and disrupted by U.S attacks in Afghanistan, but the extremist organization could well be regrouping in parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. This information comes from Gen. Tommy Franks, head of U.S. Central Command. To contend with this more scattered threat, Franks said today that the United States has some 800 land and sea based troops in Djibouti and other parts of the Horn of Africa. Eric Westervelt reports from the Pentagon.

Jacki Lyden talks with David Rohde, South Asia co-bureau chief for The New York Times, about the men who have returned to Afghanistan and Pakistan from Guantanamo Bay, where they were being detained by the U.S. military.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu says that when New Orleans city officials removed benches from Jackson Square to ward off vagrants, they were being untrue to the city's character.

Russian officials are still ducking questions about the nature of the debilitating gas that their commandos used to end the Moscow theater siege. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, evidence is growing that it was a powerful opiate.

In Russia, questions are growing over how a large band of armed Chechen extremists could have seized a theater in the capital's downtown, just miles from the Kremlin. More than 100 people died in the siege and some lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary investigation into the incident. NPR's Lawrence Sheets has more from Moscow.

Federal prosecutors file a complaint alleging that John Allen Muhammad killed six people in Maryland and one person in Washington, D.C. The 20-count document could pave the way for a federal death sentence. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports police are trying to determine how accused sniper John Allen Muhammed was able to obtain a weapon. The $800 firearm that Muhammed allegedly used in the shootings was registered at a gun store in Tacoma, Washington, but the store has no record of it being sold or what happened to it.

There's plenty of data and science about how vaccines for COVID-19 save lives. But for some, the case for vaccination has to be a religious one.

Netflix's "Squid Game" became its most streamed show ever this week.

Authorities detain more than 200 Haitians, who abandoned their ship near the island suburb of Key Biscayne after their 50-foot wooden freighter ran aground. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Thousands honor the late Sen. Paul Wellstone at a memorial in Minneapolis Tuesday night. The Democratic senator, his wife and daughter, three campaign aides and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota last week. Tom Scheck reports.

Georgia Public Radio's Susanna Capelouto reports that next week, Georgia will become the first state in the country to have every vote cast on a touch-screen computer system. There are concerns the new technology could scare some people away from the polls so a big effort is underway to get voters comfortable with the new machines.