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The National Guard announces it has missed its recruiting goals by 30 percent in the last two months. In response, they are offering new incentives, including cash bonuses for new recruits and those willing to reenlist. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) calls for a congressional investigation into why the Federal Emergency Management Agency spent $29 million of funds meant for hurricane relief in the Miami area, even though that region experienced conditions akin to a thunderstorm. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

Recent debate over the intelligence reform bill raised to a national level the divisive issue of granting drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants, but states have been struggling with the problem for decades. The central question is how to protect public safety without rewarding illegal entry. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.

A freighter carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of fuel runs aground off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutian chain. A search continues for six crewmembers missing in the frigid Bering Sea. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

The U.S. leads an operation against insurgents in an area south of Iraq's capital. Known as the "triangle of death," the region has been the scene of almost daily attacks on Iraqi government troops and police. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

Producers Dmae Roberts and Sara Caswell Kolbet report on descendants of Hawaiians who live in the Pacific Northwest. Many generations later, the progeny of those first Hawaiians still carry on some sacred traditions brought from the islands.

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) accuses CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson of working to politicize public broadcasting at a mid-day press conference. At the session, Dorgan released CPB emails and other documents showing "raw data" from a report Tomlinson secretly commissioned to track public broadcasting shows for political content.

New Orleans is still off limits to most of its residents. NPR's Cheryl Corley drove to the city's Gentilly neighborhood to check out evacuee Mary Jacobs' home, and called her with a report.

In contrast to Annie Liebowitz's posed celebrity portraits, Charles Peterson gets the sweat, anger, and noise of the Seattle scene on film in his new book, Touch Me, I'm Sick. Marcie Sillman reports on the challenges of capturing performance in the static medium of photography.

This year's Pulitzer Prizes are announced Monday. Among the winners: Samantha Powers for her book on genocide called A Problem from Hell, Jeffrey Eugenides for his novel Middlesex about a hermaphrodite, and composer John Adams for his Sept. 11th-inspired music On The Transmigration of Souls. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.