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  • for the pilot and plane that disappeared during a training mission almost two weeks ago. Air Force investigators have concentrated their search on 10 square miles of a mountain range in central Colorado. The area's deep ravines, heavy timber and snow cover have hampered the search...which has used sophisticated military technology like satellites and spy planes.
  • A video posted on a militant Islamic Web site shows the beheading of a man identified as civilian contractor Eugene Armstrong. Armstrong was kidnapped along with one British and one American colleague from their house in Baghdad Thursday. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Robert Siegel.
  • With Al Jazeera taking the lead, Arabic-language news networks are shifting strategy due to increased competition and pressure from Arab governments unhappy with their political coverage.
  • of the Immigration and Naturalization Service was on Capitol Hill yesterday to give testimony on an embarrassing incident. In the summer of 1995, INS officials in Miami lied and deceived members of Congress who had come down for a visit. To make the center appear less crowded, they released dozens of illegal aliens...some criminals and some who hadn't been screened for communicable diseases. Last week, 12 INS employees were fired, demoted or suspended.
  • Lawmakers anxiously await the Mueller report, but there's a catch: redactions. Greg Brower, formerly the FBI's chief liaison to Congress, discusses with Lulu Garcia-Navarro what might be blacked out.
  • The O.J. Simpson murder trial has become one of he most watched and talked about legal events in contemporary American history. ost Liane Hansen speaks with Mathew Angle, columnist for the Manchester uardian newspaper in England, and Hiroshi Sugimoto (hee-ROW-shee oo-ghee-MOE-toe), the Los Angelos Bureau Chief for the Japanese daily newspaper sahi Shimbum (ah-SAH-hee SHIM-boon) about the reaction in their countries to he trial.
  • British commandos rescue a New York Times reporter held hostage by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. Reporter Stephen Farrell was unharmed, but his Afghan interpreter was killed in a shoot-out.
  • Sporadic fighting continues between U.S. forces and insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Karbala. In southern cities of Basra and Amarah, British troops took fire from other al-Sadr loyalists after a close aide to the cleric offered rewards for the capture or killing of British soldiers. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Eric Westervelt.
  • NPR's David Greene talks to sports journalist Kevin Blackistone about the NCAA's future after numerous corruption investigations and recent reports calling for changes.
  • Kentucky has been invaded, and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is fighting back. Imported plants such as bush honeysuckle, autumn…
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