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In Florida, evacuees seeking to escape the path of Hurricane Frances fill shelters as the state's evacuation preparations continue. The storm, downgraded to a Category 2, is expected to make landfall on Florida's coast Saturday morning. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

Medical schools are now teaching ethics and morality in their classes, something that hasn't been routine in the past. Some say that medical students' moral development is stunted once they enter the busy world of a hospital. Julie Rosenthal reports.

Sen. John Kerry makes campaign speeches after the short break that is traditional during opponents' party conventions. After the last events of the GOP convention, Kerry held a rally at one minute past midnight. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

A black candidate who has been compared to the arch-conservative former Sen. Jesse Helms is running for the House in North Carolina. Vernon Robinson's first challenge is Tuesday's Republican primary. Stephanie Martin of member station WFDD reports.

For the third year in a row, the number of Americans living below the poverty line rose last year, growing by 1.3 million people, the Census Bureau reports. More Americans are also going without health insurance. Hear NPR's Kathleen Schalch.

Reporter Victoria Mauleon is a Basque American. She traveled back to her homeland near Pamplona, Spain, for a family reunion where she discussed with her relatives issues of Basque identity what it means to be a part of an ethnic group which has fought to maintain its sovereignty and soul for hundreds of years.

There are over 6,000 languages in the world today. Some experts say the majority are on the verge of disappearance. NPR's Dean Olsher considers the rapid deaths of many of the world's languages -- like Papua New Guinea's Arapesh -- and reports on the debate in the linguistic community over the need to intervene and save them.

Many experts predicted that health care policy would be a key to the 2004 presidential race. Coping with the problem of 44 million uninsured Americans was supposed to be a major issue, but it hasn't been so far. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

Warren County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, is one of the most heavily Republican areas in the state. Republicans will need their support to offset Democrats elsewhere in the fiercely contested state. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

The body of American hostage Paul Johnson is found in Saudi Arabia. Militant Islamists claiming ties to al Qaeda said they were responsible for beheading the Lockheed Martin worker, who was taken captive Saturday. President Bush denounces Johnson's killers as "barbaric." Hear an NPR News report.