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When the Pentagon released a list of 33 major military installations it wants shut down, it sent shock waves through many cities and states. The proposed closing of Ellsworth Air Force Base, home to a fleet of bombers, is going over badly in Rapid City. Charles Michael Ray of South Dakota Public Radio reports.

Police say gunmen assassinated a top Foreign Ministry official in Iraq Saturday, a death that came on the heels of a car bombing that claimed several more lives. Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Samir Sumaidaie, tells Jacki Lyden about the mounting toll of civilian casualties in his homeland.

Michele Norris talks with Imam Hassan Qazwini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America, about the new mosque in Dearborne, Mich. The mosque, which opens Thursday evening, is the largest in the United States.

President Bush is to meet with six Latin American leaders. They are trying to win congressional approval for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which the president signed a year ago. Labor groups oppose the trade deal, and lawmakers have not been eager to embrace it.

Reza Aslan, author of the new book No god But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, explains the political and social origins of Islam. In the future, he says, democracy can thrive in the Islamic world, but it won't look the same as democracy in the West.

In a bid to get out of bankruptcy, United Airlines is expected to off-load its pension plans on the federal government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Most United workers will receive something close to the same benefits they were expecting. Many high-earners will get substantially less.

President Bush's visit to the former Soviet Union satellite republic of Georgia was seen by some as a rebuff to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the United States believes has backpedaled on promises to speed up democracy. Ed Gordon speaks to Lawrence Sheets about how Bush was received in Russia and Georgia.

President Bush's next stop is the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He is expected to praise the country for its turn toward democracy during the peaceful "Rose Revolution" that brought a pro-western leader into office.

Advocates for women's sports say a new Education Department survey will harm Title IX legislation. The administration says the new e-mail survey will help schools gauge interest in women's sports and allocate resources. But critics worry the survey will be ineffective -- and do more harm than good.

Despite many Britons' opposition to the Iraq war, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party is all but assured of maintaining its majority in the House of Commons -- though this election is unlikely to be a repeat of Labour's landslide victories in 1997 and 2001. British pollster Sir Robert Worcester discusses key issues in the election.