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NPR's Ketzel Levine goes for a hike in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness a year after the Biscuit Fire of 2002, and finds new life and beauty in the aftermath.

Some Iranian Kurdish groups are discussing whether to launch an incursion from Iraq, potentially opening a new front in the conflict.

Sixty years ago, Adolf Hitler launched one last attempt to maintain Germany's hold on Europe. During the ensuing Battle of the Bulge, one small American platoon was captured and held in POW camps until the end of WWII. They all survived. Alex Kershaw tells their story in The Longest Winter.

President Bush included several turns of phrase in his State of the Union speech Tuesday that were meant to make his point — and to make it harder for those with other viewpoints to discount the president's ideas. Frank Luntz, author of Words That Work, talks about Mr. Bush's phrasing.

Biden says it will be "hard" to withdraw U.S. troops by May 1, a deadline that's part of an agreement with the Taliban signed by the Trump administration.

On the campaign trail, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are taking aim at U.S. immigration policies -- and at the 7 million Latino voters expected to cast ballots this November. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.

Pentagon officials now say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi briefly survived the U.S. air strike that flattened his hideout. Briefing reporters from Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell said that Iraqi police reached Zarqawi after the attack. When U.S. forces entered the area, they found that Zarqawi was on a makeshift stretcher.

Commentator Margarita Hernandez is a Mexican-born poet. She recalls her childhood as a migrant farm worker in California and Oregon.

In the weeks following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field artillery Regiment set up quarters in a war-damaged palace in Baghdad. A former lair of Uday Hussein, the crumbling palace barracks serve as a backdrop to the new documentary, "Gunner Palace."

The Genesis space capsule crashed in the Utah desert on Wednesday after its parachutes failed to deploy. The probe held billions of solar particles -- potential clues to the origins of the solar system. Hear NPR's Howard Berkes and NPR's Robert Siegel.