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House Republicans have put funding for public broadcasting on the chopping block. They say their action isn't related to ideological concerns. The move comes at a time when public broadcasters are confronting allegations of liberal bias.

President Bush is to meet with six Latin American leaders. They are trying to win congressional approval for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which the president signed a year ago. Labor groups oppose the trade deal, and lawmakers have not been eager to embrace it.

In 1964, three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss., were found dead. Today, after more than 40 years, the man accused of coordinating the attacks, Edgar Ray Killen, goes on trial for murder.

President Bush chooses Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bernanke is thought to be more than qualified on his intellectual merits. In terms of his role as a political player, analysts agree he has some big shoes to fill.

The authority of the White House was invoked in decisions being made at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by its chairman, according to e-mails obtained by NPR. The chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, has repeatedly denied accusations that he has attempted to politicize the agency.

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.

Members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee cut short their summer recess to consider key recommendations of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission. The commission's co-chairmen urge creation of a new national counter-terrorism center, led by a national intelligence "czar." NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs in April, as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%.

Federal Reserve plans for a small increase in short-term interest rates mean an end to the four-year period of falling interest rates. With the economy heating up, the Fed wants to keep inflation in hand. If the Fed raises the interest rate from 1 percent to 1.25 percent, it is expected to be the beginning of the end of a period of historically low interest rates. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

A U.S. military judge in Baghdad rejects pre-trial motions requesting that the trials of two American soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib be held outside Iraq. Judge Col. James Pohl also denies defense requests for memos by Bush administration lawyers on the use of interrogation tactics. Defense lawyers argue their clients were following orders that originated higher up the chain of command. Hear NPR's Emily Harris.