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The White House has insisted it could not have predicted the events of Sept. 11. But NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that U.S. agencies had plenty of clues in the months prior to the attacks. NPR Online has a timeline.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the conflict over an Ethiopian obelisk in Rome. It was taken from Ethiopia more than 60 years ago by Mussolini, although the Italians promised to return it.

The 14th International Conference on AIDS opens in Barcleona, Spain. NPR's Richard Knox reports that one of the topics to be discussed is the recovery rates of patients taking new AIDS cocktails. The treatment has critics, who believe more effort should be made in methods to prevent AIDS.

In the first of two reports, NPR's John Burnett looks at the culture of drug money and corruption along the U.S.-Mexico border. Federal investigators believe that there is a systemic and ongoing problem of US border officials corrupted by the easy money and bribery along the border.

Grits have sustained families for four centuries, but the basic Southern dish continues to evolve. On Morning Edition, NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports on grits as part of the Present at the Creation series on American cultural icons.

Many North Carolina residents remain without power and drinking water days after being hit by Hurricane Isabel. Reporter Jessica Jones visited Elizabeth City, N.C., to see how people were coping with the cleanup.

Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to grant him power to use force in Vietnam. The events that led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution have long been the subject of debate and controversy. NPR's Bruce Auster reports.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on the ongoing negotiations to transfer prisoners currently held in Iraq to the new Iraqi interim government.

A program in Richmond, Calif., aims to help young dads take better care of their sons and daughters. It is called Fathers at Work. Youth Radio's Sophie Simon-Ortiz reports.

Chris Roberts of Minnesota Public Radio reports on The Commissioning Club, a group of patrons who order new classical music from contemporary composers.