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Fred Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, dies of cancer at the age of 74. Rogers hosted the popular children's program on public television for more than 30 years. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.

Commentator Amy Dickinson mulls over a cool summer this year in upstate New York. There are still plenty of tomatoes and squash in the garden, but there's a feeling that fall is just around the corner, with the fresh start that a new school year always brings.

At the University of Maryland this week, National History Day 2005 is taking place. Students from across the country have gathered to present their papers, exhibits, documentaries, and performances. We hear from Emma Bennett, who performs as folk singer Molly Jackson; from Zoe Ackerman, who models herself after a Quaker who teaches freed slaves to read and write; and from Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven, whose project is about the news boys strike of 1899.

with Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. This meeting was the latest in U.S. shuttle diplomacy in response to the growing undercurrent of violence in the Middle East.

Diana Abu-Jaber's book, Crescent, weaves fragrant cooking, romance and the horrors of Saddam Hussein into her novel of Middle-Eastern immigrants and exiles in Los Angeles. Read an excerpt from the novel.

Ed Gordon talks with gospel and soul singer Candi Staton about her music career, and overcoming alcohol and domestic abuse. She has a new album, His Hands.

In a companion broadcast with PBS, NPR presents "One Family of Jazz" — the opening night gala concerts at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, its new state-of-the art home for jazz in the Time Warner building on Columbus Circle in New York.

Antonio Villaraigosa is set to become the Los Angeles' first Latino mayor since 1872 after a historic coalition of Latinos, blacks and whites buoyed his candidacy. But he says that after the publicity dies down, he will be judged by his ability to tackle problems such as L.A.'s public school system.

Astronaut Steve Robinson successfully removes two small pieces of fabric that were poking out of the shuttle's heat shield. NASA engineers worried the fabric could cause superheated air to damage the shuttle when it returns to Earth next week.

The trial of former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian begins Monday on charges he provided support to terrorists. The government, which has spent two decades building its case, says it has linked al-Arian with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which the United States has designated a terrorist group.

SUNNI KHALID VISITS THE GAZA STRIP AND TALKS TO PEOPLE THERE ABOUT THE RECENT WAVE OF TERROR IN ISRAEL.