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Democrats in Congress are no longer pushing for troop withdrawal timelines as part of an Iraq war funding bill. The emergency war spending bill they intend to pass this week and send to the White House only asks the President to report on how benchmarks for progress in Iraq are being met.

The Cutty Sark, the historic British ship that once represented the peak of development of sailing cargo vessels, has been badly damaged by fire in London. Police are investigating reports that the fire might have been an act of arson.

High level Chinese officials are set to meet this week in Washington with their American counterparts. The two sides will try to seek solutions to major trade problems. The U.S. wants concessions from China while the Chinese are concerned about a bullying tone from the U.S.

Americans with pet birds have long used long-playing records to help train their birds to sing and talk. But now those dated collections from albums from the 1950s and 1960s can be taken from the Web site www.petsinamerica.org.

At the turn of the 20th century, the little-known Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a gridiron powerhouse. As author Sally Jenkins recounts in a new book, many of football's tricks were born at the experimental boarding school for Native Americans.

Commentator Brian McConnachie has been asking listeners to describe their impressions of famous voices. In his last challenge, he asked listeners to describe the voices of Mick Jagger, Eleanor Roosevelt, Barry White and Luciano Pavarotti.

Rock musician Jeff Buckley died 10 years ago today at age 30. His talent inspired a legion of fans during his short career.

The U.S. military is reporting that it has in its custody the body of an American soldier, believed to be one of the three missing since May 12. The soldier has not yet been identified. The search for the other missing U.S. soldiers continues, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell tells NPR's Robert Siegel.

Eve Tallman, director of the prize-winning Grand County Public Library in Moab, Utah, kicks off our annual summer reading series with a handful of books she's set aside for the season.

Military prosecutors open their case against Marine Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who is accused of failing to report the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in November 2005. The Iraqis allegedly were killed by members of a Marine squad near the town of Haditha in the wake of an IED attack on a Marine convoy.