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Daley shared on Instagram that he knitted a cozy for his medal to keep it from getting scratched — a Union Jack on one side and a Japanese flag on the other. He says knitting helps keep him grounded.

which threatens to derail the Dayton peace process. The names of candidates for local office have been removed from ballots on the grounds that municipal elections are 'not feasible' at present. Under the Dayton accords, local elections were to take place at the same time as national elections. The elections begin today with the casting of absentee ballots by Bosnian refugees. Voting inside Bosnia is scheduled for September 14th.

The Army has announced that three more noncommissioned officers are charged with sexual misconduct. NPR's Martha Raddatz tells Noah that the latest cases come out of Fort Leonard Wood, a major training facility in Missouri. The charges include consensual sex with trainees, and indecent assault. The Army says the cases did not come to light through the complaint hotline set up to find possible victims at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. At that facility, five trainers face charges ranging from rape to improperly sending love notes to trainees.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby called the event a "breakdown in process" and not the result of negligence, angering many of the ground in Kabul.

You can't help but think of the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane starring Samuel L. Jackson when you learn about this story. A flight in Malaysia was grounded recently when a snake was found on-board.

Mourners around the country commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with moments of silence, pauses in routine -- and with large events at New York City's Ground Zero; in Shanksville Pa., where Flight 93 crashed; and at the Pentagon. In New York, loved ones read aloud the names of 2,749 victims to a crowd that began assembling before dawn.

Lupe Fiasco is a Chicago-based rapper who made his mainstream debut on the most recent CD by Kanye West, who is also from Chicago. Now Fiasco is further cementing the Windy City's reputation as a breeding ground for innovative hip-hop, with a new CD, Food and Liquor.

In the 19th and early 20th century, cosmetics entrepreneur and self-made millionaire C.J. Walker helped redefine ideals of beauty for African-American women. In the third part of her series on beauty, NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with A'Lelia Bundles, Walker's great-great-granddaughter and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker.

Jordan Darian posted a TikTok video of her gluing $77 worth of pennies to her bathroom floor. It took her 16 hours to stick the coins onto the ground by hand. It looks like a million bucks.

Robert talks with Matthew Wald, a reporter for the New York Times, about the fire that brought down ValuJet Flight 592 last May. Airline safety experts are testifying this week at a hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board. Wald discusses what occurred at the hearing today, including speculation that the fire on board the plane may have started on the ground. The question of who should bear the responsibility for the accident has come into play in today's testimony; ValuJet, as the air carrier, or Sabretech, the company responsible for packing the oxygen generators now being blamed for starting the fire. There are some indications now that language difficulties among the Sabretech loading crew may have contributed to the confusion surrounding the loading and packaging of the generators.