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Opposition to U.S. forces grows in Dhulwayiaa, a village north of Baghdad, after American troops cut down the town's fruit trees. Villagers complain they've lost their livelihood. U.S. commanders say the grove was providing cover for Iraqi gunmen sniping at American troops. Hear NPR's Jacki Lyden.

NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Michele Norris investigate Baghdad and compare it with similar-sized cities in the United States. The city has 5 million people and is very dry in summer, when temperatures climb above 100 degrees. The city has lost much of its ancient architecture but has a modern middle-class section. In good times, it's a great place to tour on foot.

For six generations, Mohawk Indian ironworkers have shaped New York City's skyline, working the "high steel" of skyscrapers and bridges. From The Sonic Memorial Project and Lost & Found Sound, hear the stories of the Mohawks who helped build the World Trade Center Twin Towers -- and their descendents who returned to the site after Sept. 11, to help clear the shattered towers away.

Many African-American leaders have lost touch with a hallmark of the civil rights movement — the tradition of self-empowerment, Juan Williams says. Instead, he says, they've embraced "victimhood."

Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, a Georgia Democrat, is helping to rally veterans for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Severely wounded in Vietnam, Cleland lost his Senate seat in 2002, when Republicans attacked his patriotism in TV ads that tied Cleland to Osama bin Laden. His story is energizing Democrats. Hear NPR's Juan Williams.

Brazil lost to Croatia in Friday's quarterfinals. As Neymar was leaving the pitch in tears after his team's exit, the son Croatian striker Ivan Perisic hugged Neymar — trying to comfort him.

Leading astronomers declare that Pluto is no longer a planet, shrinking the solar system from nine planets to eight. Pluto was discovered in 1930. It lost its planetary status when the International Astronomical Union approved a definition for planets that Pluto fails to meet.

Daniel Mendelsohn's new book is The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. As a child, his old Jewish relatives told stories of family members killed in the Holocaust. Mendelsohn undertook a worldwide search for surviving members of his family's town. During his investigation, Mendelsohn discovered letters from the family begging their relatives in the United States to help them get out of their Ukrainian town.

The U.S. Bowling Congress is considering moving its headquarters out of Milwaukee, a city where bowling is as popular as beer. The group says the cost of doing business in Milwaukee is too high. If it moves, it would be another blow to a city that has lost much of its blue-collar industrial heritage, from manufacturing to brewing.

Oregon's unemployment rate continues to fall. The state has regained nearly three quarters of the jobs it lost during the pandemic's roughest days.