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Western New York has been particularly hard hit by the decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector and in recent years has lost thousands of jobs. But one local entrepreneur is finding success in resuscitating factories in the depressed region that others had written off. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

In an unusual editorial, The New York Times says it made mistakes when it reported on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The paper found that, in the months before the war, reporters and editors relied too heavily on Iraqi defectors and U.S. government officials eager to promote a war. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Tom Rosentiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Center.

The American Friends Service Committee assembles nearly 800 pairs of combat boots on Capitol Hill, demonstrating the sacrifice of U.S. soldiers. The Quaker organization placed the boots in rows to commemorate the American soldiers killed in Iraq. NPR's David Welna reports.

The National Archive releases more than 20,000 pages of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's telephone transcripts that had been held since 1976. The documents offer a view of Kissinger's approach to negotiation and crises in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Tom Blanton, National Security Archive director at George Washington University.

Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top aides should be held responsible for failing to plan for Iraq's reconstruction after the U.S.-led war. Hear NPR's Steve Inkseep's extended interview with the former U.S. Central Command chief.

As Congress prepares to write a budget to guide this year's tax and spending decisions, some Senate Republicans join Democrats in calling for a "pay as you go rule," which would mandate that any future tax cuts be offset by spending cuts. House Republicans vehemently oppose such measures. The dispute reveals a GOP divided over fiscal policy. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University.

West Coast admirers of the late president view his flag-draped casket at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles. After a funeral in Washington, D.C., later this week, the 40th president will be buried at a memorial site at the library. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand.

Major Gen. George Fay, who is investigating the role of U.S. military intelligence personnel in abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, has asked to be replaced by a higher-ranking general. Fay says he cannot effectively investigate those who outrank him. It's likely that a four-star general will be named to head the investigation. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Bruce Hoffman, terrorism specialist and acting director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy, about the latest reports that al Qaeda has recruited thousands of new members and is planning attacks in the United States in the near future.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Edmund Sanders of The Los Angeles Times about the tentative peace agreement between U.S. forces and the followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf.