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In the 25th Bond film, 007's fellow spies include strong female characters, part of an evolution aimed at attracting new audiences and brands as the franchise makes some big transitions.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of Ndakasi, the gorilla who went viral for a photobomb a few years ago. A picture taken of her last moments in her caretaker's arms also went viral this week.

The Chinese leader says a "peaceful reunification," rather than one through military force, would benefit both China and Taiwan. Tensions between the two are the highest in decades.

Temperatures are expected to be 10-12 degrees cooler across a large portion of Florida thanks to a noticeable fall front.

Alex has pain and is a pain, Bradley works her way through her new relationship, Cory experiences a very late conversion to having a conscience, and Mitch wears cozy clothes in quarantine.

The Florida School Board Association says a letter from its national affiliate letter to the U.S. Department of Justice is the cause.

Minneapolis may become the first big city to eliminate its traditional police department. A Nov. 2 ballot question would replace it with a "Department of Public Safety."

For NPR's 50th anniversary we look at an influential children's book that is turning 50. It features Sesame Street's Grover trying desperately to avoid "The Monster at the End of this Book."

Mark Forkner, a former Boeing technical pilot, will appear in court on charges that he deceived safety regulators about a key system in the 737 Max.

FDA advisers vote unanimously on recommending that the agency authorize Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine boosters. The agency will consider Johnson & Johnson's booster authorization request on Friday.

Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, has confessed to the killings. Police have described the attack as an act of terror.

U.S. prosecutors file a complaint alleging that John Allen Muhammad killed six people in Maryland and one person in Washington, D.C. The 20-count document could pave the way for a federal death sentence. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

Thousands honor the late Sen. Paul Wellstone at a memorial in Minneapolis Tuesday night. The Democratic senator, his wife and daughter, three campaign aides and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota last week. Tom Scheck reports.

The Pentagon confirms it has about 800 troops operating in the Horn of Africa region as part of the war on terrorism. Meanwhile, several prisoners are released from Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt and David Rohde of The New York Times.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports police are trying to determine how accused sniper John Allen Muhammed was able to obtain a weapon. The $800 firearm that Muhammed allegedly used in the shootings was registered at a gun store in Tacoma, Washington, but the store has no record of it being sold or what happened to it.

Jackie Lyden talks with NPR's Andy Bowers who is at the Anaheim Angels' victory parade. The Angels won their first World Series on Sunday and Disney, the company that owns the Angels, is hosting a home-town ticker tape parade right down Main Street in the middle of Disneyland.

Federal prosecutors file a complaint alleging that John Allen Muhammad killed six people in Maryland and one person in Washington, D.C. The 20-count document could pave the way for a federal death sentence. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

Jacki Lyden talks with Eleanor Dwight about her biography, Diana Vreeland. Vreeland was a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. Jackie Kennedy said Vreeland was her "fashion mentor" and she is credited with helping launch the careers of Lauren Bacall, Mary McFadden, Issey Miyake and Richard Avedon.

Russian officials are still ducking questions about the nature of the debilitating gas that their commandos used to end the Moscow theater siege. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, evidence is growing that it was a powerful opiate.

Researchers weave new techniques into the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program used in schools. The techniques are meant to address criticisms that DARE has been largely ineffective. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

Jacki Lyden talks with David Rohde, South Asia co-bureau chief for The New York Times, about the men who have returned to Afghanistan and Pakistan from Guantanamo Bay, where they were being detained by the U.S. military.

Georgia Public Radio's Susanna Capelouto reports that next week, Georgia will become the first state in the country to have every vote cast on a touch-screen computer system. There are concerns the new technology could scare some people away from the polls so a big effort is underway to get voters comfortable with the new machines.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu says that when New Orleans city officials removed benches from Jackson Square to ward off vagrants, they were being untrue to the city's character.

In Russia, questions are growing over how a large band of armed Chechen extremists could have seized a theater in the capital's downtown, just miles from the Kremlin. More than 100 people died in the siege and some lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary investigation into the incident. NPR's Lawrence Sheets has more from Moscow.

Al Qaeda's former leadership may have been dispersed and disrupted by U.S attacks in Afghanistan, but the extremist organization could well be regrouping in parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. This information comes from Gen. Tommy Franks, head of U.S. Central Command. To contend with this more scattered threat, Franks said today that the United States has some 800 land and sea based troops in Djibouti and other parts of the Horn of Africa. Eric Westervelt reports from the Pentagon.