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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are campaigning hard for Nevada's five electoral votes. The state narrowly voted Republican in 2000. The race is thought to be close, and Kerry is trying to tip the balance by opposing a plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. NPR's Jeff Brady reports.

As Florida braces for a possible third hurricane in four weeks, the state's citrus growers are still adding up the damage from the last two. This past weekend, Hurricane Frances directly struck the state's east coast, where most of its grapefruit is grown. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

The 10-year ban on assault weapons expires, despite public opinion polls indicating strong support. President Bush had said he'd sign an extension, but the House's Republican leadership failed to act on renewal, which was strongly opposed by the NRA. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

Major League Baseball announces that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington, D.C., in time for the 2005 season. The city, chosen over finalists including Las Vegas and Northern Virginia, has not had a baseball team since the Senators left in 1971. A publicly financed stadium is to be built along the Anacostia River south of the Capitol. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Orders for uniforms for U.S. troops help revive the economy of Roanoke, Ala. The jobs are much needed in the economically depressed textile town, but workers still struggle with the knowledge that their jobs come amid some peril for U.S. soldiers. Melanie Peeples reports.

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry campaign furiously in key battleground states, exchanging attacks on gun control, Iraq and the economy. Meanwhile, CBS News says it will stand by a disputed story on the president's service in the Air National Guard. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

Suspected Chechen militants seize a school in southern Russia. Reports suggest between 120 to as many as 400 people are inside, many of them children. The militants threaten to blow up the school if Russian security forces try to storm the building. Hear NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

State officials order more than a million people to evacuate Florida's east coast as Hurricane Frances heads their way. The storm is twice the size of Hurricane Charley, which battered the state three weeks ago -- and just as potent. Bobby Link of Florida Public Radio reports.

As the region around Beslan tries to cope with a school siege that resulted in hundreds dead, fears spread of discord between North Ossetia, where the takeover occurred, and Ingushetia, where some of the gunmen were from. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

In Beslan, Russia, funerals began Sunday for the more than 330 people killed in a confrontation between Chechen separatists and Russian forces. Many of the dead were children held hostage before Friday's bloody end to the siege. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.