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At the 15th International AIDS Conference, held in Thailand this past week, scientists and policy makers focused particular attention on the fate of women with AIDS. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg and Dr. Kathleen Cravero of UNAIDS.

Both the Bush and Kerry campaigns are making a huge investment in ads aimed at the Latino community. Bush got about one-third of the Hispanic vote in 2000 and hopes to garner a larger percentage this year. With polls indicating that many voters have already decided whom to support, both camps see the Hispanic vote as an opportunity to gain an advantage in what looks to be a tight race. NPR's John McChesney reports.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ben Elgin of Business Week about the company behind the Google Internet search engine as the group moves toward an initial public offering. They discuss Google's business model and how to assign a value to the company.

An activist group has defused a controversy over a billboard protesting the Iraq war. Project Billboard had intended to put up in New York's Times Square a picture of a bomb decorated with stars and stripes reading "Democracy is best taught by example, not war." Clear Channel, which rented the space to the group, objected. The group has now agreed to change the bomb to a dove, plus a ticker tape showing the cost of the war.

Though Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently said the situation in Iraq is calming down, insurgents continue to attack government officials, the country's infrastructure and its new security forces in particular. Some 890 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since March 2003. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves and NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Talks with Labor Party leader Shimon Peres are in early stages. Adding Labor to Sharon's coalition would boost his unilateral plan -- opposed by conservatives in his own Likud Party -- to disengage from the Palestinians.

In a searing 511-page report, the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA delivered a badly flawed assessment of the situation in Iraq leading up to the war that toppled Saddam Hussein. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the central bank is prepared to raise interest rates more quickly if inflation suddenly worsens. Greenspan, testifying on Capitol Hill, noted the nation's improving economic conditions but said the Reserve would remain vigilant to stabilize prices. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

The plague is rare in humans, but it's not unusual for an outbreak to wipe out a colony of prairie dogs. Scientists are capturing and analyzing bacteria from burrows in an effort to hone methods for tracing bioterrorist attacks. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

An explosion at a bus stop in Tel Aviv kills an Israeli soldier and wounds more than 14 people. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the attack showed the need for Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank, which the World Court has declared illegal. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports.