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The latest Radio Expedition treks into the Louisiana swamps in pursuit of one of the most charismatic American birds: the ivory-billed woodpecker. The fabled wild-eyed woodpecker was thought to be extinct, but recent reports have electrified birders around the country. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for Morning Edition.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on today's bombing in a residential neighborhood of Baghdad. Iraqi officials say two cruise missiles struck a residential and shopping area, killing as many as 30 people. It's the worst single reported instance of civilian deaths since the U.S. bombing campaign began a week ago. U.S. military officials say they are investigating the incident.

A harsh new report on the state of the nation's oceans and coastal areas calls for a massive overhaul of the laws and agencies meant to keep those waters healthy. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

President George Bush's re-election campaign begins running hard-edged ads against likely Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry with the election eight months away. The Kerry campaign reports that for the next few days it will be running fewer ads and deciding what tactics to pursue next. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

The Internet age has created a new transparency in campaign financing. Years ago, reporters covering the money trail had to dig up their information from files deep inside the Federal Election Commission. Now the information is available within seconds on various Web sites. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

In a searing 511-page report, the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA delivered a badly flawed assessment of the situation in Iraq leading up to the war that toppled Saddam Hussein. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

An expert panel has assembled a presidential report detailing how to send a human mission to Mars. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports that the multi-billion dollar initiative would require draining resources from other scientific research projects.

Much of the reporting coming out of Myanmar is accomplished by people who risk their lives to send information to Burmese pro-democracy advocates in exile. Aye Chan Naing, executive director of the Democratic Voice of Burma, talks about the dangers of reporting from the country formerly known as Burma.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation are in Saudi Arabia to gather information about the bombing of the U.S. military housing complex in Dharan that killed 19 Americans. There were initial reports from Saudi officials that the car used in the bombing may have been recovered, but U.S. officials doubt the getaway car has been found.

Noah talks with NPR's Melissa Block about a published report that investigators have found the first evidence that an explosive device was detonated on Trans World Airlines Flight 800. The report, published in Friday's editions of the New York Times, says the FBI has found traces of a chemical used in plastic explosives on a piece of wreckage retrieved from the area that investigators believe was the epicenter of the blast.