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The Army is investigating allegations that U.S. soldiers raped a woman, then killed her and three other people in March in the Iraqi town of Mahmoudiyah, south of Baghdad. The suspects are a soldier from the 101st Airborne Division and another who was recently discharged.

Stop to think about the quality of Brazil's players -- its record five World Cup titles, or its two Golden Ball winners -- French striker Thierry Henry says, and already you have lost the match. Henry says Les Bleus will not be thinking about Brazil's achievements in Saturday's World Cup quarterfinal.

A divided Supreme Court rules that Vermont's state statute limiting campaign spending and fundraising constitutes a restraint of free speech, in violation of the First Amendment.

After suffering political defeats, and watching his popularity plummet, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be in the midst of a comeback. The mostly-Democratic state legislature is adopting a bold new budget that gives the Republican Schwarzenegger most of what he wants. Ina Jaffe reports.

Don Gonyea and Renee Montagne read from listeners letters, including praise for the two-part series on life in the U.S. foreign service.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing a speed limit for ships entering ports along the eastern seaboard. The goal is to save right whales from being struck and killed. Shipping companies say there is no proof that slowing their vessels will help the endangered mammals.

Israel is demanding the release of a soldier captured during a raid by Palestinian gunmen Sunday at a Gaza border crossing. The attack killed two Israeli soldiers and was the first such ground assault since Israel pulled out of Gaza last summer.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is in China. It's his first visit there as a member of the Bush administration. He joined the cabinet in July. U.S. business leaders and members of Congress want to see the Chinese currency appreciate in value as a way to reduce the U.S.-Chinese trade surplus.

Corrections officials have complained for years that America's prisons and jails are becoming the country's new asylums for the mentally ill. A recent Justice Department study supports that claim. It says more than half of all prison and jail inmates have experienced mental health problems in the last year.

A Canadian commission ruled Monday there was no evidence linking a Canadian citizen to any terrorist organization. Mahrer Arar was arrested in New York in 2002, sent to Jordan, then Syria, where he says he was tortured during the year he spent in Damascus jails. He was released in 2003.