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Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, talks about his book Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Hurricane Katrina wiped out several casinos in Biloxi and other places along Mississippi's Gulf Coast. With the industry's future uncertain, workers wonder how they'll survive.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! is but one of scores of bands making music without the help a record label, pressing CDs themselves and selling them at concerts and on the Internet.

At the Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, La., evacuees who fled from Hurricane Katrina and flooding in New Orleans have a range of reponses to President Bush's speech to the nation Thursday.

Ukrainian forces have driven Russian attackers out of the city of Kharkiv. Ukraine's second-largest city had been under heavy bombardment for weeks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data this week showing drug overdoses killed more than 107,000 people last year.

On Jan. 1, Dr. Regina Benjamin's rural health clinic in Bayou La Batre, Ala., was destroyed by a fire. The clinic was preparing to reopen after repairs that followed severe damage from Hurricane Katrina. The doctor tells Debbie Elliott what she'll do next.

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings began Monday. Senators on the Judiciary Committee highlighted abortion, executive power and civil rights as issues on which they plan to question the nominee. Alito also gave an opening statement.

Coldplay is pledging to make the band's current tour "as sustainable and low carbon as possible."

Confirmation hearings begin Monday for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, with opening statements from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and from Judge Alito. Democrats are signaling the hearings to follow will be contentious.