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President Bush may use his executive powers to unilaterally enact recommendations of the 9-11 Commission, say administration officials. Over the weekend, Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry said he had found several recommendations the president could adopt on his own authority. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

As fighting continues in Najaf for the fifth day, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vows to fight to the death. Authorities announced a curfew in part of eastern Baghdad, where Sadr supporters have been battling Iraqi and foreign troops. Meanwhile, five British soldiers were wounded in clashes in the southernmost city of Basra. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

The Supreme Court hears arguments on sex discrimination in school sports. The case tests whether the law called Title IX provides a basis for a sports coach to sue for back pay. The coach says he was fired after complaining that girls' basketball teams at an Alabama high school got fewer resources than boys' teams. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Researchers find children who suffer anxiety are more prone to eating disorders later in life. A comparison of some 700 women with eating disorders to those without them found that women with the disorders were twice as likely to have suffered anxiety as children. NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports.

Militants kidnap an American and a Nepalese man in the same upscale Baghdad district from which two Americans and a Briton were seized last month. The men work for a Saudi firm that supplies U.S. forces. At least a dozen American civilians are being held or are missing in Iraq. Hear Washington Post reporter Karl Vick and NPR's Renee Montagne.

A pretrial hearing begins in a military courtroom in Fort Hood, Texas for Army Specialist Charles Graner. Graner said Monday he and the others were soldiers just doing what they were told. A series of photographs, showing Graner and six other soldiers humiliating prisoners initially brought the abuse scandal to light. Hear NPR's Jackie Northam.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld makes a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Fallujah and Mosul, where a suicide bombing this week killed 22 people, mostly U.S. soldiers. Rumsfeld, who's been criticized for being unfeeling, told journalists he stays awake at night worrying about U.S. troops. NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro reports.

The Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta refuses a request from the parents of Terri Schiavo for an emergency hearing on reinserting their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube. Schiavo's parents say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.

In January, a Marine gave an FBI agent in Pennsylvania eight small objects he'd brought home from Iraq. They were 5,000-year-old stone seals that had been looted from a site near Babylon. The FBI says it's the first recovery by its agents in the United States of looted cultural property from Iraq. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to take disciplinary action against current and former officials involved in the oil-for-food program for Iraq. Mismanagement of the program -- designed to help Iraqis under U.N. sanctions during Saddam Hussein's rule -- has tarnished the U.N.'s reputation.