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President Bush's budget proposal calls for significant changes to Medicare and Medicaid.

The deadline President Bush set for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq passes. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Brian Naylor at the White House, NPR's Anne Garrels in Baghdad and NPR's Steve Inskeep in the Persian Gulf.

An entire division of 8,000 Iraqi soldiers surrenders in southeastern Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Iraq's 51st mechanized division was the main defender of the key port city of Basra. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Tension in Baghdad increases as the city prepares for a U.S.-led assault to remove Saddam Hussein. Soldiers gather along streets and residents stock up on food and gas. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

Police departments are on heightened alert around the country, stepping up their presence at bridges, tunnels and power plants. But state and local governments say they need federal help to maintain this level of increased security. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry receives the support of U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt. The Missouri congressman says he and Kerry share common goals, and calls Kerry the candidate best positioned to take on President Bush in November. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.

Seven American soldiers are dead after an Army helicopter is shot down in southern Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Officials say four others were wounded, and they've been rescued. Hear NPR News.

The nine Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico for their second debate. Hear NPR's Mara Liasson.

As President Bush campaigns in the Midwest, he highlights an improved economy but finds he can't ignore the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and Brian Bull of Wisconsin Public Radio.

A roadside bomb and a rocket attack kill at least two people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. And a bomb explodes in Baghdad, injuring at least two Iraqi civilians in a nearby SUV. Hear NPR's Cara Gerhardt.