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Lawmakers assailed Army leaders Monday for the conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing at the hospital.

Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin offers his views on the controversy surrounding former CIA Director George Tenet. In his new book, At the Center of the Storm, Tenet says his agency warned the White House against going to war with Iraq.

"Freewater" centers around a colony of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp and won this year's Newberry Medal as well as the Coretta Scott King award.

One of the arguments made for a bailout of the auto industry is that it is a matter of national security. Is there a connection between the Big Three and the military? Retired Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says it is a false argument to directly link the auto manufacturers with military-specific combat systems.

The tax proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama are markedly different. NPR asked Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center to assess how each plan would affect the financial situations of three voters from different income levels.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a flu pandemic in the U.S. could cost as much as $675 billion — much of that due to fear and confusion. Dr. Sandro Galea, director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan and a professor of Epidemiology at the University's School of Public Health, offers his insight.

Texas and eight other Republican-led states are withdrawing from ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, in part because of far-right misinformation about the nonpartisan agency that enables states to share data to keep their voter rolls more up-to-date.

The nation's parliament has voted to give the sun at the flag's center, straighter rays. The change comes after critics said the current rays make the sun look more like a sunflower.

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.

At Chicago's Russian Senior Center, Russian-born immigrants gather to connect. Since the invasion, many say they're feeling isolated and a sort of PTSD as they cope with the war and it's implications.