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Top leaders in Kandahar province in Afghanistan have been assassinated two days before the country votes in parliamentary elections. The top U.S. military commander escaped injury. The Taliban have claimed responsibility in the attack.

Sharon Van Etten digs deeper into brooding textures, East Atlanta rapper Young Nudy gets weird and Sam Hunt offers a contender for Song of the Summer.

Wongel Estifanos was visiting Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park during Labor Day weekend while vacationing with her family, officials say.

NPR's Melissa Block reflects on the results of an annual survey about what most scares Americans. The nation's health care system, pollution and another world war rank in the top 10.

Also: The Texas church where a mass shooting occurred last Sunday will be demolished; Puerto Rico loses most of its power again; and pigeon racing is popular in Cuba.

Also: Kenya's Supreme Court overturns the country's presidential election; thousands of Muslims are trying to flee Myanmar; and a North Carolina group is planning a "Bigfoot" festival.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix briefs European leaders on the latest findings in Iraq. Blix refuses to term yesterday's discovery in Iraq of nearly a dozen empty warheads a "smoking gun" that would show Iraq to be in noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Embattled Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott remains defiant about hanging on to his post after a GOP colleague declares he is willing to challenge Lott for the leadership job. Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) has the public support of several GOP senators. Hear NPR's David Welna.

Even though it's mid-May, milder weather has yet to make its way up the 6,288-foot peak in New Hampshire.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a wide-ranging press conference today in Berlin with the German and foreign press. On the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, she seemed to welcome that the two met.