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MySpace, the online community for music and networking, has hired a former prosecutor from the Justice Department to patrol the site and educate its users about privacy and child-exploitation issues. Hemanshu Nigam also has helped Microsoft develop security and child-safety strategies.

The White House has plans for a bombing campaign that might lead to regime change in Iran, according to an article by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker magazine. The article, "The Iran Plans" quotes sources at the Pentagon. President Bush called the story "wildly speculative."

Antiretroviral therapies to treat AIDS have transformed patients' lives and Dr. Michael Saag's practice at the University of Alabama-Birmingham's Center for AIDS Research. But Saag says the therapies have brought new worries, such as concerns about drug resistance and the quality of life for AIDS patients who now live much longer.

In a news conference Monday morning, President Bush takes questions on topics ranging from Iraq to his acknowledgement that he authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without a warrant after Sept. 11.

In what is only his second speech from the seat of presidential power since announcing the invasion of Iraq, President Bush outlines his plan for the way forward in Iraq.

President Bush says he repeatedly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on some U.S. citizens as an anti-terrorism measure. News of the spying helped block renewal of the USA Patriot Act.

Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread mumps from Iowa to several other Midwestern states, health officials say. The epidemic -- Iowa may have as many as 600 cases -- is a new example of how quickly diseases can spread through air travel. The outbreak is the largest in 18 years.

As San Francisco prepares to mark the centennial of the 1906 earthquake and fire, historians recall how Chinatown, destroyed along with much of the city, almost wasn't rebuilt.

Toy inventor Tim Walsh's book Timeless Toys is full of stories about a century of all things playful. He fills Liane Hansen with facts about the Slinky, Play-Doh, Lincoln Logs and other fundamentals of fun.

Thomas Roma has a new book of photos of some of the cells of now-closed Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania, where inmates "volunteered" to use their own bodies to test everything from skin creams to LSD.