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Hundreds of people are missing and thousands are homeless in the wake of Hurricane Charley. The powerful Category 4 storm hit land Friday near Fort Myers in Southwest Florida. The storm has headed north into the Carolinas. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and reporter Pat Duggins in Orlando, Fla.

For the first time since the Vietnam War, the U.S. electorate is more concerned about foreign affairs and national security than the economy. That's the conclusion of polling data released this week by the Pew Center for the People and the Press. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Center.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Beslan, where a hostage crisis ended in carnage Friday. At least 330 people died Friday as security forces battled Chechen rebels. Half were children. In the wake of the disaster, Putin eyes a new approach to counterterror efforts. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Thousands of people turned out Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil in Blacksburg, Va. The mourners remembered those killed Monday in two campus shootings, one of which is blamed on a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student.

For years, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus has helped the poor people of Bangladesh by giving them "microcredit" to start businesses. One such enterprise is a cell phone company that provides service and equipment to 260,000 village "phone ladies" across the nation.

A routine financial inquiry led to the discovery of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring. How do banks scrutinize the transactions of their customers, particularly "PEPs" — politically exposed people?

In one of the worst incidents since the start of the conflict in Iraq, at least 175 people were killed Tuesday when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town in northern Iraq. Kahtaniya, near Mosul, is home to an ancient minority sect. At least 200 others were injured.

A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is expected to seek an arrest warrant Monday charging Sudan's president with orchestrating violence in the western region of Darfur. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have died in the violence since 2003.

WNYC reporter Cyndi Rodriguez talks about the latest on the US Airways plane has crashed into the Hudson River. More than 100 people were on board flight 1549 that had taken off from LaGuardia Airport on its way to Charlotte, N.C.

Some doctors and safety experts are increasingly concerned about pedestrians who use phones and other electronic devices. They say deaths and injuries are becoming more common because people are distracted while talking on the phone, texting or listening to music through headphones.