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During World War II, Italian Catholic priest Don Aldo Brunacci helped save more than 200 Jews. Brunacci says the Nazi's brutal Italian campaign actually helped his efforts to save Jews. Last week, Brunacci -- now 90 -- received a humanitarian award at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He speaks with NPR's Bob Edwards.

A day-long hostage standoff in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, ends as government commandos storm a resort building, freeing dozens of hostages and leaving several dead, including an American. Gunmen had taken between 45 and 60 hostages during attacks in the heart of the kingdom's oil region Saturday. An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Thomas Lippman of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.

Former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton join other prominent Democrats to hail Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as the party's new leader and pledge to help him win the presidency in November. The fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., pulled in more than $11 million, a record for Democrats. Hear NPR's David Welna.

Commentator Christine Holmgren says the anit-abortion movement has romanticized the idea of motherhood...and in effect has contributed to the fantasy that teenage girls have about keeping their babies. She says their commercials create an unreal picture of the struggles and sacrifices of a young, single mother. (4:00) 2B CUTAWAY 0:59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 14. CRIME STATS -- A report released by the FBI yesterday says the nation's crime rate is down this year. Large cities have had the most significant drop in crime, while rural areas have experienced a slight increase. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the Justice Department attributes the falling crime rates to improved community policing efforts, but some criminologists say its difficult to pinpoint the reasons for the drop in crime.

A grand jury has indicted a third member of the Duke University lacrosse team on charges of first-degree rape. David Evans, a 23-year-old senior and team co-captain from Bethesda, Md., was also indicted on sexual offense and kidnapping charges.

Holocaust victims and liberators of concentration camps are gathered in Washington, D.C., for a 60th anniversary commemoration. A former U.S. soldier who helped liberate one of the Nazi-run death camps in Austria and a survivor of a related camp meet to share memories of the end of World War II.

Chicago-based jazz singer Kurt Elling consistently gets the top spot in music magazine polls for Best Male Vocalist. His new album Nightmoves, is his first for the Concord Jazz label.

From member station WFDD in Winston-Salem, N.C., Stephanie Martin reports that restorers have worked for years without a blueprint to reassemble a jumble of pipes and mashed pieces into the world's largest 18th-century organ. It will be heard in concert tomorrow for the first time in nearly a century.

September 27 marks the centennial of the most famous equation in the world: E=mc². On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein submitted the paper that laid out the formula. We hear archive tape, and physicist John Rigden, author of Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, explains the seminal formula.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center is joining other military facilities in going under the knife. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has voted 8-0 to close the hospital. Presidents and military personnel have been treated at the center since its opening in 1909.