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NPR's David Welna reports from Orange, Texas, where a dozen residents took part in a role-playing exercise as a congressional committee trying to divvy up the federal budget. The group concluded that the $1.6 trillion tax cut proposed by President George Bush wasn't a prudent idea until the national debt is paid off.

It's been 6 months since a tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing a quarter of a million people in a dozen countries. As NPR's Margot Adler reports, the billions of dollars in aid that have poured into those countries is only beginning to make a dent.

The U.S. First Marine Division moves to seal off roads on the east and north side of the Iraqi capital, and troops fight from skirmish to skirmish, finding huge caches of weapons and ammunition hidden along the sides of Highway 6 along the Tigris River. Hear NPR's John Burnett.

India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.

Nearly 6,000 teenagers die each year in alcohol-related car accidents in the United States. A program aimed at high-school students forces participants to confront the consequences of drunk driving. Kathryn Baron of members station KQED reports from San Francisco.

Some 6,000 pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act provide new details about the mistreatment of detainees by U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Jackie Northam.

The U.S. unemployment rate falls to 6.2 percent in July, but U.S. companies cut more jobs from their payrolls, especially in the manufacturing sector, the Labor Department reports. The data suggests that the labor market remains weak despite growing evidence of an economic rebound. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that an all girls soccer league in the Israeli-Arab village of Sakhnin has shocked everyone with its success. It has not been an easy road for the young Arab girls in Israel, but they managed to become national champions. Even so, there are those who do not approve of girls playing this sport and would like to see the team abolished. (6:23

This will be Wray's first public testimony about the deadly insurrection on Jan. 6.

In Florida, fewer than 6% of vaccinated people are Black, and around 11% identify as Hispanic.