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In the nation's breadbasket, there's a lot of interest in new wheat. It's hard white wheat, which has a milder flavor and paler color than red wheat. More importantly, it can be used as a whole grain ingredient in white bread and snacks.

John Fogerty — once lead singer of Credence Clearwater Revival and now a solo artist — has buried the hatchet with his record label. The result is a new greatest hits CD called The Long Road Home.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 created a legal process for authorizing wiretaps. But the intelligence community has resisted legal restrictions, especially related to the war on terrorism.

In addition to flooding and power outages, Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf Coast may create delays in the area's oil and gas production, which supplies a large amount of the nation's needs. Monday morning, oil prices surged above $70 a barrel.

Hurricane Katrina left radio, TV stations and newspaper operations in New Orleans under water. The Times-Picayune had no print edition for three days, but media outlets -- and evacuees -- are turning to the web.

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.

James Bamford, author of two books about the National Security Agency, talks about what the agency does, the constraints it's supposed to operate under and how some of its veterans feel about the charges that President Bush authorized domestic spying with warrant.

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 IRS has stepped up its investigations of churches accused of endorsing political candidates. The agency is examining about 60 churches over complaints about endorsements from the 2004 election alone. The groups could lose their tax-exempt status.

Just before dawn Thursday morning, the wall around a mountaintop reservoir gave way in southern Missouri. More than a billion gallons of water roared down the mountain, sweeping away the home of the parks superintendent who lived below. Ben Meredith, chief of the Lesterville Fire Department, discusses the causes of the flood and the latest developments.