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With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.

Some Republicans are on the defensive about what they said or wrote privately after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. NPR's Michel Martin discusses that with Harvard professor Steven Levitsky.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says more peacekeeping forces may be needed to maintain order in Iraq. He says no decisions have been made, but suggests other nations may supply some of their own forces to provide security as Iraq moves to form a new government. Hear Dana Priest of The Washington Post.

The Bush administration circulates a draft resolution that outlines a larger role for the United Nations in post-war Iraq. It's an effort to convince more countries to contribute troops and resources to the stabilization of Iraq, but the resolution maintains a lead role for the United States in the country's affairs. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

A drive is under way in many Southern communities to preserve their first African-American public schools, which they helped raise money to build. The Rosenwald schools were built with financial help from philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, one of the early presidents of Sears and Roebuck. Jessica Jones of member station WUNC reports.

The Army is asking for volunteers to eat Meals Ready to Eat — and nothing but — for six weeks for a study on gut health. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on MREs and the jokes soldiers crack about them.

"Hey everyone, I'm really honored and looking forward to working on Top Gear," the former Friends star said Thursday. He has been a guest on the show several times.

A U.S. soldier is killed in a roadside bombing in Fallujah and another dies in an ambush on a military convoy in Baghdad. As attacks in Iraq continue, U.S.-led forces announce plans to put 28,000 new Iraqi police recruits through intensive training at a U.S. base in Hungary. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

Last year, Louisiana began housing teenagers inside a former death row unit at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Civil rights lawyers say the children were subjected to long periods of solitary confinement and were kept in cells without air conditioning during the hottest summer on record.

The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.