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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Washington Post reporter Karl Vick in Najaf. An agreement to halt fighting in Najaf was reached between the Iraqi government and Muqtada al-Sadr this week. U.S. forces and militants loyal to al-Sadr battled for weeks before the deal was brokered by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

When political refugees fled Vietnam after the war in the 1970s, thousands settled in a part of Orange County, Calif., now known as Little Saigon. The community of more than 140,000 residents is known for strong feelings against communism. But the prevailing ideology is changing. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

At a Republican fundraiser in Santa Monica, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger introduces President Bush by rejecting reports that he and the president aren't close. Bush, who raised $3 million at the event, vows to compete in California this November despite Sen. John Kerry's double-digit lead there. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

A day after Gov. James McGreevey stunned New Jersey with news of a gay, extramarital affair, Republicans demand he leave office immediately. McGreevey, a Democrat, had said he would leave Nov. 15. An immediate departure would force a special election. Eugene Sonn reports.

Researchers argue that radio signals are not the most efficient way of alerting an extraterrestrial intelligence to our existence. The scientists recommend sending, and searching for, an interstellar message in a bottle. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

After a six-and-a-half-year journey, NASA's Cassini spacecraft becomes the first to enter Saturn's orbit. The bus-sized spacecraft will spend the next several years exploring the planet, its rings and its moons. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

On July 5, 1954, Elvis Presley recorded "That's All Right," long hyped as the first rock 'n' roll record. It's not. By 1954, quite a number of records had been released that would qualify as rock 'n' roll. Even at Sun Studios, where Elvis recorded, the sound was nothing new. David C. Barnett of member station WCPN reports.

Pentagon and State Department officials are cautiously optimistic about the future of Iraq in testimony before the Senate. But they concede that fighters opposed to the U.S. military appear to have a "central nervous system" able to coordinate complex operations such as the bombing attacks that struck several Iraqi cities this week. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

In much of the developing world, social stigma attached to AIDS has made testing uncommon. But in Bostwana, where some 40 percent of the adult population is infected, health officials have even enlisted the president in a public campaign to make testing routine. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television reports.

This weekend, the city of Chicago is dedicating a high-tech public space full of contemporary sculpture, video screens, and a bridge designed by Frank Gehry. Millennium Park was supposed to open four years ago, but changes in its architectural planning, and a construction budget that tripled, led to delays. Chicago Public Radio's Edward Lifson reports.