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It was relatively quiet at the Washington state Peace Arch, the Northern border's third busiest crossing, on Thursday as new border rules took effect. But the real test will come over the weekend, when the number of border crossers generally is much higher.

The human brain can, indeed, make up things that aren't there — sights, sounds, feelings. Michele Norris has a literary reminder of a famous hallucination: Captain Ahab, from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. Ahab lost his leg but can feel it still.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon joins efforts to calm post-election violence in Kenya. Negotiations to end the crisis were postponed Thursday after a second opposition lawmaker was killed — one of more than 850 deaths in a month of unrest.

After an exceedingly cordial one-on-one debate Thursday night, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama head back to the down-and-dirty of the campaign trail, where recent rhetoric had sharpened.

Sen. John McCain may be the current Republican front-runner in the presidential race, but former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee insists that the contest is far from over. Huckabee discusses his campaign, his fellow candidates and his high hopes for Super Tuesday.

The candidates have differing positions on what to do going forward in Iraq. But much of their campaign rhetoric has been backward-looking — questioning each others' support for, or opposition to, the war.

On the verge of Super Tuesday, the presidential hopefuls are turning their attention to the states with big delegate counts, such as California and New York. But what about the other states? Will the candidates spend time in Kansas or Idaho or Arizona — or Minnesota?

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debate Thursday for the first time since their bitter contest in South Carolina — and for the first time without John Edwards. Edwards withdrew from the presidential race Wednesday, but he has yet to endorse another candidate.

Armed with a team of forensic specialists and a full orchestra, Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop investigates the deafness and demise of one of the greatest composers of all time, in concerts called "CSI Beethoven."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Republican presidential nominating event in West Virginia Tuesday, claiming all 18 delegates at stake at the party's convention-style statewide caucus. Former Gov. Mitt Romney had led after the first round of voting. After that first round, Sen. John McCain's supporters threw their support to Huckabee to prevent a Romney win.