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A day before Iraq's parliamentary election, President Bush will stress why he thinks the United States must stay in Iraq, in the last of a series of speeches intended to persuade more Americans to support his strategy.

The south Los Angeles community is on its way to surpassing New Orleans as the most violent per-capita city in America. City leaders, residents, police and the clergy are trying to quell the violence.

The Lundberg Survey says the average price of gasoline has gone up 20 cents over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.53. But different areas, or zones, are paying different costs. Michele Norris talks with Elizabeth Douglass of The Los Angeles Times.

With regular gasoline averaging $2.55 at the pumps, how can drivers maximize their fuel use? Robert Siegel talks with Warren Brown, automotive writer for The Washington Post.

Tim Hawkinson's art has been called slyly conceptual and a carnival sideshow, profound and preposterous. A mid-career retrospective is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Susan Kelz Sperling, author of Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words, talks about words that have been lost from the English language.

Mechanics are threatening to walk off the job Saturday unless Northwest Airlines drops its demands for job and wage cuts. The carrier says it has replacement workers ready, and that it needs to dramatically cut costs to stay afloat. From Minnesota Public Radio Jeff Horwich reports.

The National Rifle Association is using the experience of Hurricane Katrina to document the importance of guns during a disaster. During the chaos in New Orleans post-Katrina, gun purchases by both civilians and law enforcement swelled.

Like New Orleans, San Francisco suffered mass destruction from a natural disaster when the great earthquake of 1906 left much of the city in ruins. Today, some experts worry that history may repeat itself should a major quake occur along the Hayward Fault, which runs beneath some of the Bay Area's most populated regions.

President Bush's administration is known for its savvy use of technology and media strategy. That work has never been more important than now, with the president's polling numbers slipping and an election in Iraq looming.