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The investigation of the leak that revealed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame raises complicated questions that can't be immediately answered. Was a crime committed? Were Bush administration ethical standards breached?

Roxanne Rhodes has set out to conquer the world of high-stakes poker, a game dominated 10-to-1 by men. She talks with Scott Simon from Las Vegas, where she's competing in the 2005 World Series of Poker.

The revelation this week of the identity of Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's celebrated anonymous source on the Watergate scandal, has stirred up the memories of many journalists. These competing reporters, beaten badly at the outset of Watergate, say that the accolades raining down on the Washington Post obscure scoops of their own.

The book takes place at the start of the Cultural Revolution in China.

More than 20,000 hurricane survivors have already moved out of the shelter at Houston's Astrodome, many finding temporary housing in the city. Countless have been helped by Houston churches.

On Friday morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee announced they'd look into the nationwide shortage of baby formula.

Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of foreign-born high-tech workers have come to the United States thanks to the H-1B visa guest worker program. A new album mixes Indian and Western musical influences to take a lighthearted look at the techie immigrant's life in America.

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. For 10 years the duo captured the imaginations of adults and children alike. Now every published panel of the strip has been collected in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

The prosecution begins closing arguments in the five-month trial of a former professor at the University of South Florida accused of supporting terrorism. Sami Al-Arian and three others face 53 counts in a federal case alleging that a cell in Tampa managed a terrorist enterprise.

Liberians elect their next president in a runoff election Tuesday. The contenders are Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who would be the first woman elected head of state in Africa, and George Weah, who became famous as an international soccer player.