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Despite the Memorial Day recess, House lawmakers returned to Washington on Tuesday for a hearing on the FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson's (D-LA) Capitol office. That search has provoked a standoff involving the White House, the Justice Department and House leaders over the reach of executive branch powers.

A United Nations report on the status of the global AIDS epidemic estimates that there are 38 million people infected with HIV. The spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is slowing in the Caribbean and some parts of Africa. But it is taking off in Russia and Eastern Europe.

There is a long list of former Goldman Sachs employees who've left Wall Street to work for the government. It's an unusual history of public service for a financial firm. Frank Langfitt reports.

In anticipation of a French Open face-off between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, host Steve Inskeep talks to Bud Collins. The Boston Globe columnist, and NBC commentator, talks about the role of coaches during tennis matches.

Commentator Mark Bowden says he is surprised that so many people tell him the U.S. was to blame for the hostage crisis in 1979. He says the Iranians were wrong then, and they're wrong now in their brinksmanship over nuclear weapons. Later this week, we will hear another point of view from Barry Rosen, who was one of the hostages in Iran.

Table-saw accidents send more than 60,000 people to seek medical treatment every year, according to federal estimates. In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, SawStop inventor Steven Gass visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission near Washington recently.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is grilled about federal domestic surveillance during an appearance at the House Judiciary Committee. Gonzales refused to elaborate on the program, other than to say he believes it is legal. Both Republicans and Democrats accused him of stonewalling.

As companies continue to scale back pensions for their workers, some CEOs will earn millions of dollars annually in retirement, according to figures released by the AFL-CIO.

Former vice presidential aide Lewis Libby, indicted for leaking a CIA agent's identity, has testified that any classified information he may have leaked to a reporter was authorized for release by President Bush through the vice president. The claim is included in court documents released Thursday.

Andrew McBride, a former U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Virginia, talks with Robert Siegel about the sentencing phase of federal death-penalty trials, and what jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case might consider as they deliberate his punishment for conspiring with al-Qaida.