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Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) talks about his efforts in the Senate to push for greater civil liberties protections against surveillance under the Patriot Act.

Aid worker and commentator Steve Weaver says there are two general arguments in the United States about the way to proceed in Iraq: Stay the course or withdraw the troops as soon as possible. Weaver says that neither of these plans takes into consideration the best interests of Iraq.

The White House has approved the release of oil from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve. The move is designed to offset the large production cuts caused by Hurricane Katrina. The storm has idled most of the region's refineries.

The Red Cross in Houston says the Astrodome is full. Officials there had announced plans to take in 23,000 refugees from New Orleans. But by early this morning, after accepting some 11,000 refugees, they stopped letting people in. That's left busloads of angry, tired, and hungry people wondering where they'll end up.

The Asian tsunami that struck one year ago left nearly 170,000 people dead or missing in the Indonesian province of Aceh alone. Hundreds of thousands more lost their homes and the rebuilding process has not been as swift as they had hoped.

Brea Evans left behind a life in a lab to work as an observer aboard the Alaska Warrior, monitoring what kinds of fish are being caught.

On average, single-family house prices have risen 50 percent nationwide over the past five years. That's meant record profits for homebuilders, even as some economists warn that price increases are not sustainable.

Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News discuss 2005, as seen through the prism of their own work.

David Wiegand, a 31-year-old mortgage underwriter from Portland, Ore., is the new national Scrabble champion. He was crowned in Reno, Nev., after winning three out of the five games in the final match against Panupol Sujjayakorn, 21, an economics student from Thailand.

It's easy for people to see what happens when a hurricane hits land -- just turn on the Weather Channel. What happens over the deep sea is more of a mystery. A new study suggests that out in the ocean, hurricanes may whip up 100-foot waves -- bigger than anyone thought.