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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) says the White House unfairly made CIA director George Tenet the scapegoat for faulty intelligence on Iraq. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice should not have allowed President Bush to tell the American people that Saddam Hussein tried to obtain uranium from Africa.

The Iraqi city of Fallujah has no money of its own and relies on U.S. funding for its budget. So while the city has a new mayor, the real power rests with a young U.S. Army captain, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports. See photos from in and around the mayor's office.

The U.S. government releases post-mortem photographs of Uday and Qusay Hussein in an effort to convince Iraqis that the heirs to Saddam Hussein's toppled regime were killed by U.S. forces Tuesday. Eric Westervelt reports that the photos have diminished some but not all the skepticism among Iraqis. One said only a video of the bodies would convince him. Any hope that the deaths would stem attacks on U.S. forces were short lived. Three American soldiers died Thursday when their convoy was ambushed.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Christopher White — CEO of Road to Responsibility, which provides care for adults with disabilities — about life threatening staffing shortages in his industry.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has long been seen as a key ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That commitment has now extended to the war in Ukraine.

The state's highest court rejected new maps widely seen as favoring Democrats. The court largely agreed with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.

Russia's state-run gas company has cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. At the heart of this move: the war in Ukraine, the sanctions imposed by the West, and Russia's attempts to wriggle free of them.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesperson Ned Price about the return of Marine veteran Trevor Reed in a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Nicole Auerbach, a senior writer with the Athletic, about Mark Emmert's announcement he plans to step down after 12 years at the helm of the NCAA.

For 19 days, activists have camped outside a police station in Sulaibiya, Kuwait, on hunger strike. They're asking the Kuwaiti government for citizenship.