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Elizabeth Wynne Johnson examines the environmental record of Dirk Kempthorne. The governor of Idaho is President Bush's nominee to be secretary of the Interior.

Federal documents suggest that the Sago mine, where 12 men died after being trapped by an explosion Monday, has a record of committing serious safety violations.

Many people living along the northern Israeli border have fled to shelters. In one shelter, a group of older Russian émigrés live underground as Hezbollah rockets pepper their region.

The community in Buffalo, New York, is holding vigils to honor the victims of Saturday's shooting. President Biden traveled there Tuesday to talk with the families of the victims.

Before last Thursday, North Korea claimed to have not a single case of COVID-19. Now it's battling what it claims is its first outbreak.

The late 1960s were the golden age of Soul music. In studios located in Muscle Shoals, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., legends like Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge and Otis Redding were recording songs that proved timeless. And many of them were made with Dan Penn.

Now that snowboarding has become mainstream, a new "alternative" sport is catching the eye of adrenaline junkies in select ski areas. It's called airboarding -- sort of the bodyboarding equivalent to surfing the slopes. Reporter Tom Banse visits a small resort in the Pacific Northwest to see what it's like to fly down the slopes belly-first.

Official election results give a center-left coalition led by Romano Prodi a thin majority in both houses of Italy's parliament. Prodi rejects calls by current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to form a broad-based government of national unity. Also in Italy, authorities nab a mafia boss sought for more than 40 years.

Wal-Mart shareholders are scheduled to meet Friday, and will likely encounter pressure from some religious groups, which hold shares in the nation's biggest retail chain, to adopt policies that address the pay gap between Wal-Mart executives and lower-level workers.

Perhaps nowhere is the standoff over Iran's nuclear enrichment program followed more closely than in Los Angeles' Iranian-American community. Known as Tehrangeles, it's the biggest community of Iranians outside Iran.

Women have made great strides in many professional fields, but few women lead major symphony orchestras in the United States. Celeste Headlee of Detroit Public Radio reports on why female conductors are so rare.

British police continue their search for four terrorists wanted for bombing the London subway and bus system last week. The police are also trying to repair community relations in south London after anti-terrorist officers shot dead an innocent Brazilian man Friday. He was mistaken for a suspected terrorist.

A U.N. probe finds evidence of involvement by both Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri earlier this year. The report indicates a need for further inquiry, and the Lebanese have asked the United Nations to continue its probe until Dec. 15, when the mandate runs out.

Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and an associate will face fraud charges in federal court, related to the purchase of a cruise line. A federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., indicted Abramoff and Adam Kidan on six counts each: one of conspiracy and 5 of wire fraud.

A recent report from Amnesty International got the White House's attention by comparing the U.S. detention center at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, to Soviet prison camps. The administration denounced the report's contents and the organization that produced it.

The Senate began considering President Bush's comprehensive energy proposal on Tuesday. The debate is expected to continue for weeks. Democrats argue that it does not do enough to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil.

In the 1990s, Seattle voters backed a plan to build an elevated train through 14 miles of the most congested parts of the city. But the estimated price tag has risen to $11 billion, prompting talk that the project may be abandoned.

Thirty-three years after a break-in at the Watergate hotel, one more mystery is solved. The Washington Post has confirmed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat, a confidential source who guided the newspaper's coverage of the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. The Post's David Von Drehle interviewed Bob Woodward, who held secret meetings with Felt, and discusses the unmasking of Deep Throat.

Pharmaceutical company Merck will appeal Friday's $253-million jury award in the death of a man who had taken the painkiller Vioxx. But thousands of cases await the company in state and federal court.

President Bush's next stop is the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He is expected to praise the country for its turn toward democracy during the peaceful "Rose Revolution" that brought a pro-western leader into office.