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The U.S. men's hockey team capped a disappointing Winter Olympics by losing a quarterfinal match to Finland with a score of 4-3. The American team never gelled, winning only once in six games.

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Buffalo, N.Y., mayor Byron W. Brown about yesterday's deadly supermarket attack, and what he wants to happen for his community.

In some Eastern Ukraine cities, volunteers risk their lives to deliver food and medicine to those afraid to leave their homes because of constant shelling.

After publishing an article by a proponent of intelligent design, scientist Richard Sternberg found himself the target of retaliation at the Smithsonian Institution. His case is probably the best-documented battle in the war between the vast majority of scientists and a tiny insurgency promoting an alternative to evolution.

Time to read during the holidays, away from school and work, is a gift you give yourself, author and book critic Alan Cheuse says. His suggested list of 2005 holiday gifts includes tales of space, dinosaurs, music and a mystical poet.

Millsboro, Del., is home to Punkin Chunkin 2005 World Championship. This year was the 20th for a contest to see who can build a machine to hurl a pumpkin the farthest. It's part science, part sport and all party.

After the deadly terrorist attacks on the USS Cole and French tanker Limburg, many feared that Yemen would become al Qaeda's next base of operations. It hasn't... yet. But growing repression, corruption and lack of services are prompting fear that anger at the regime could play into the hands of al Qaeda supporters.

The University of Texas Longhorns rally past the University of Southern California 41-38 in college football's national championship. The high-scoring contest was punctuated by a last-minute touchdown run by Texas quarterback Vince Young.

Country singer Gretchen Wilson lived the hardscrabble life she depicts in her songs. Wilson was born to a teenaged mother and dropped out of high school. She worked as a bartender before getting her lucky break and is considered one of a new breed of Nashville star. Her latest CD is called All Jacked Up.

R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post discusses an advocacy group called the U.S. Family Network that was founded by and run at first by Tom DeLay's former chief of staff. The group was funded almost entirely by companies linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.