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Marine commanders say time is running out for insurgents in Fallujah to comply with the terms of a cease-fire agreement signed earlier this week. Military officials say insurgents have not turned in significant numbers of heavy weapons, in violation of the accord. Marine commanders say their offensive will resume unless real progress is made. KPBS reporter Eric Niiler reports.

Confusion continues to grow over Medicare's discount-drug program, which had its official start Monday. The new plan provides seniors with a choice of discount drug cards, but reports arose late last week that many of the discounts listed on the government's Web site were not accurate. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

A new report says the increasing death toll from the mosquito-borne disease can be reversed through international support of a new drug based on a Chinese herbal treatment. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is thrown in doubt over reports of Milosevic's worsening health. The trial, already two years old, has faced many delays, as Milosevic, acting as his own lawyer, has required many concessions over his health. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports from Atlanta on the FBI's investigation of Richard Jewell, the security guard now under suspicion of planting the crude pipe bomb that exploded in Centennial Park, killing an one person and injuring more than 100 others. Amid a swarm of reporters from around the world, FBI agents today brought a bomb-sniffing dog for an hours-long search of Jewell's apartment in a working class Atlanta suburb.

The Gore Commission released its recommendations on aviation security today. The report outlines a number of proposals, including requiring airports to use certain high-tech explosives-detection systems, creating passenger profiles to spot likely terrorists, the assignment of a number of FBI agents to counter-terrorism, and the deployment of bomb-sniffing dogs. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that airlines and the ACLU oppose some of these suggestions.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Diyarbikir (dee-YARR-buh-keer) in Southeastern Turkey that there are new reports of heavy fighting between rival Kurdish militias in northern Iraq, as Turkey declares the establishment of a buffer zone along its borders with Iraq to prevent attacks from yet another Kurdish rebel group.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on CBS' announcment of plans to offer free television time to the presidential candidates just before the November elections. NBC and ABC reportedly are discussing the idea. Fox and PBS earlier announced plans to give air time to major presidential candidates. A coalition of media bigwigs led by former Washington Post political reporter Paul Taylor has been pushing the networks to provide the access as a way to help reinvigorate the democratic process.

NPR's Howard Berkes has been following the standoff in Jordan, Montana and talks LIVE with ATC host about conflicting reports from negotiator who've been shuttling in and out of the compound. One negotiator, self-styled patriot Bo Gritz, says the Freemen believe they've won concessions from prosecutors who have brought charges against the group. State negotiators contradict Gritz, and report no progress yet in getting the Freemen to surrender.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the U-S military's evacuation of Americans and other foreigners from Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Since the operation began last night, several dozen people have been flown from the U-S embassy compound to neighboring Sierra Leone. But other Americans are having trouble getting to the U-S embassy in Monrovia because of persistent street battles. Factional fighting that broke out over the weekend continued today despite reports of a ceasefire.