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Iraqi television broadcasts footage of what it claims is President Saddam Hussein visiting residential areas of Baghdad on Friday. If the video is authentic, it would be Saddam's first public appearance in two years. Meanwhile, Iraqi ministers continue to report the battle is going according to Iraqi plans. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

U.S. ground forces set the stage for an assault on Baghdad. The Army's 3rd Infantry Division is reported to be about 30 miles southwest of the Iraqi capital. Southeast of Baghdad, U.S. Marines destroy a division of the Iraqi Republican Guard and cross the Tigris River. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

A group of very patient astronomers reports new evidence that an immense black hole lives at the center of Earth's galaxy. The team has been watching a handful of stars at the center of the Milky Way for a decade -- waiting for a telltale sign that they're in orbit around a black hole. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

In the first of three reports on how local, state and federal governments are dealing with post-Sept. 11 security, NPR's Pam Fessler reports on how some of the federal government's anti-terrorism efforts are working in Florida -- the home of many potential targets, and also a state that has one of the nation's more ambitious homeland defense programs.

Wall Street Journal reporters Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller tell how they tracked the collapse of energy giant Enron in their new book 24 Days. The reporters helped unravel one of the biggest white-collar crime stories ever. Hear Smith, Emshwiller and NPR's Renee Montagne.

As officials and rescue teams in central Florida assess damage from the area's third hurricane of the season, they report a rise in injuries and accidents. Statistically, more dangers emerge in the days after a hurricane has struck, according to relief workers. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

The earth hums, emitting a tone too low for human ears to detect. Geophysicists have finally located the source of the noise. As they report in this week's issue of the journal Nature, it comes from the globe's largest oceans during winter, apparently the result of powerful winter storms. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

The first public audit of the Coalition Provisional Authority's management of $18 billion of Iraqi funds is due this week. An interim report says CPA accounting practices were prone to error and open to fraud. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

The Sept. 11 commission concludes that while the United States has made strides in fighting terrorism, the nation is not yet safe from new attacks. Among the reforms proposed in the panel's 567-page final report is the creation of a national intelligence director. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

Social scientists have learned you can't always believe what people tell you. An analysis of 3 places in the Muslim world examines whether peoples' reports of religious behavior match what they do.