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The Senate may vote on an auto bailout as early as Tuesday after Congress sent White House details of a $15 billion rescue plan. General Motors is doing its best to ease the way. It has run full-page ads admitting past mistakes and promising to overhaul the company.

President Obama arrived in Tokyo on Friday, hoping to shore up relations with a new Japanese government, which is seeking to be more assertive with Washington. The trip is the start of a weeklong tour that will include stops in Singapore, China and South Korea.

ABC World News anchor Charlie Gibson is retiring at the end of the year. Diane Sawyer will replace him. That means women will anchor two of the three major network evening newscasts. Bill Carter of The New York Times talks with Renee Montagne about the changes at ABC.

Critic Milo Miles reviews The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics. It's Dennis Kitchen and Paul Buhle's illustrated biography of influential artist and writer Harvey Kurtzman, the inventor of MAD Magazine.

The New Orleans Saints play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in the Super Bowl XLVI. Despite the hoopla surrounding the clash, the players say they remain focused on the game. Still, it's not easy for players to remain focused.

Toyota has insisted the problem with sudden acceleration involves the pedals on its vehicles, but many are questioning whether it's really the electronics. Now, there are reports of problems with the Prius, the company's best-selling hybrid. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is trying to explain what he meant when he said don't drive a recalled Toyota until it's fixed.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faced questions Wednesday about the bailout of insurance giant AIG. Lawmakers pressed Geithner on why so much money intended for American International Group ended up instead with its trading partners.

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It scored big with one demographic over the weekend: roller derby fans. One theater in Maryland was packed with real-life derby girls the Mason-Dixon Vixens.

Under various health care overhaul bills on Capitol Hill, small-business owners would be required to insure themselves. Amanda Austin, director of federal public policy for the National Federation of Independent Business, says affordability is the key if the government mandates health coverage.

Centuries later, doubts persist that William Shakespeare penned the works that bear his name. Skeptics include not only scholars but also famous folks, ranging from Orson Welles to Mark Twain.

Co-host Steve Inskeep talks to Elizabeth Charnock, CEO of Cataphora. The California-based firm helps companies in legal matters by investigating patterns of employee e-mail use.

Angry civilians attacked U.N. offices in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, accusing U.N. peacekeeping troops of failing to protect them. Rebels are making gains against government troops in the region. Michael Kavanagh, a reporter trapped in a U.N. base in Goma, says the U.N. troops are too few in number to protect the vast area of 8 million people.

It was a down day on Wall Street Wednesday. Investors agonizing over a faltering economy sent the stock market plunging again. The Dow wiped out all but about 127 points from Monday's record gain. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 9 percent — wiping away nearly all of the gains it made earlier this week.

The House voted Friday on the financial rescue plan that the Senate passed Wednesday. The new version includes billions of dollars in tax breaks and credits. Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at Taxpayers for Common Sense, says lawmakers in the Senate piled on as much baggage onto what they saw as the last legislative train leaving the station.

The House is expected to vote again on the $700 billion bailout bill by Friday. House Minority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, who is representing House Republicans in the negotiation, says three things have happened that could now sway GOP lawmakers who earlier rejected the measure.

A few months after surgery for a painful spinal disk, a woman's doctor asked her for a sample of urine during a follow-up visit. The routine request turned into a financial nightmare.

The insurer says it is not usually medically necessary to have an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist on hand most of the time during the common surgery.

A journalist who was interviewing patients about tests that supposedly required only a few drops of blood ran into trouble with representatives from Theranos, the company behind the technology.

Finding a provider of health care in your network is often a challenge because the insurer's directory isn't up to date. A California law aims to improve directory accuracy.

As federal lawmakers return to work, they faces tough choices about the budget, worrying advocates for medical research, teen pregnancy prevention and other health initiatives.

In the U.S., there are about 39,000 cancers associated with the human papillomavirus each year. Doctors say the new HPV vaccine may help reduce the number of cases.

Patients with the blood disorder can experience severe pain. But when they arrive at the emergency room seeking help, health care personnel often think their requests for narcotics are a sign of addiction. Nursing professor Paula Tanabe is helping to illuminate the problem and improve treatment.

The Florida Highway Patrol on Saturday, for the second time in two days, shut down traffic on a nearly 60-mile section of Tamiami Trail due to the fire.

How will the AIG bonuses affect the government's approach to repairing other crippled financial institutions? For some perspective, Renee Montagne talks with David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal.

Former Rep. Vin Weber talks to host Jacki Lyden about the death of Jack Kemp, his former colleague in the House of Representatives.