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The storm killed 148 people and caused between $50 and $65 billion in insured losses. Across Florida, 5,000 homes were destroyed and another 30,000 damaged.

In Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, the median age is 18. Many youth say their aging leaders are out of touch, yet the leading candidates in Saturday's presidential election are in their 70s.

The pharmaceutical company announced that its experimental pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people infected with the coronavirus. The findings are not peer reviewed.

These are the albums that the longtime World Cafe host turned to the most this year. Some may surprise you.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean insists he will not drop out of the Democratic presidential race if he loses Tuesday's primary in Wisconsin. But a top Dean campaign aide is planning to offer his help to frontrunner John Kerry, if Dean doesn't win in Wisconsin. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

A commission on Abu Ghraib prison abuses, headed by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, finds fault throughout the chain of military command and in Washington. Top leaders are criticized for failing to provide adequate resources to the prison. Hear Schlesinger and NPR's Robert Siegel.

In his first overseas trip as vice president, Mike Pence said the U.S. "strongly supports" NATO, even as he scolded member countries for not contributing enough funding to military capability.

Kerry appeared to push back against a French proposal calling for an international presence at the holy site in order to preserve the status quo agreement. Israel is against the proposal.

It's been a year since Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh was killed reporting on an Israeli raid in the West Bank. Israel never prosecuted anyone and her family still seeks accountability.

A federal judge is hearing arguments from doctors and parents of transgender youth who are seeking to block an Alabama law that criminalizes gender-affirming treatments for minors.