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The Washington Post reports new pictures and short videos show prisoners being physically and sexually abused at Abu Ghraib last year. According to the paper, sworn statements from detainees describe a range of abuse more brutal than previously reported. Several hundred prisoners at Abu Ghraib were freed Friday. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pays a one-day visit to Baghdad, visiting the Abu Ghraib prison complex where abuses of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody took place. While in the Iraqi capital, Rumsfeld also addressed troops at the heavily guarded American headquarters. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Despite the intensified fighting in Iraq, South Korea is committed to sending 3,000 more troops to assist the U.S.-led occupation. Meanwhile, the painful memory of 5,000 South Koreans who died fighting alongside Americans in the Vietnam War still looms. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) urges the deployment of more troops to help in rebuilding and securing Iraq. Lieberman, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has staunchly supported the Iraq war. President George Bush said Sunday that military commanders in Iraq will have the support they require. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley and Lieberman.

Admirers gather to remember President Ronald Reagan, who died Saturday at his Southern California home after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. Elsewhere, Republicans and former allies recalled the former president. President Reagan's body will be brought to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol. Hear NPR's Ina Jaffe, NPR's Andrea Seabrook and NPR's Liane Hansen.

A federal elections panel meets to examine the future of touch-screen voting machines, as several states reconsider the machines' reliability. Last week, concerns about accuracy prompted California's secretary of state to decertify 42,000 machines in 14 counties for the November election. John Myers of member station KQED reports.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba blames a "failure in leadership" and "lack of discipline" for abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Taguba, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he found no evidence that the abuses were part of an official U.S. policy. Hear NPR's David Welna, NPR's Michele Norris and Sen. Evan Bayh.

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with the 10-member bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Members of the commission say they heard some new information during the closed-door meeting but would not specify what that information is. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and commission member Richard Ben Veniste.

President Ronald Reagan has died at 93 of pneumonia after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He gained the White House after defeating President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 general election. Reagan ushered in a Republican conservative political revolution that insisted, in his words: "Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." He survived an assassination attempt and the Iran-Contra scandal to serve two terms as president. He virtually disappeared from public life after revealing his illness in 1994. Hear NPR's Neal Conan.

Both President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry take part in Memorial Day services to honor America's war dead. The president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery, while Kerry visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.