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Next month, Cory Booker will officially become mayor of New Jersey's largest city, Newark. The 37-year-old Rhodes Scholar, already a veteran of one of America's nastiest election battles, will have some monumental challenges to address.

"Too Late for Prince Charming?" was the cover story in Newsweek magazine 20 years ago this Friday. The magazine reported on a study that indicated college-educated women over the age of 40 had a less than 3 percent chance of getting married -- leading to the famous "more likely to be killed by a terrorist than find a mate" line. Two decades later, Madeleine Brand reports that most of the women involved in the original study are now married, and that other study findings have proven untrue.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) began hearings this week to determine whether a Justice Department raid on the Capitol Hill office of Rep. William Jefferson's (D-LA) was constitutional. Commentator Deborah Mathis says that the evidence in the case is a bit overwhelming.

The former southern African breadbasket of Zimbabwe is in the midst of an economic and social meltdown. Zimbabwe's annual inflation tops 1,000 percent, the highest in the world. The country's economy has shrunk by almost a third since 2000. And there are regular shortages of everything from gasoline to basic food staples.

The Mother’s Milk Bank of Florida has gone from receiving a dozen calls a week to a dozen calls a day.

Egyptian journalist Hisham Kassem talks with Steve Inskeep about the status of Ayman Nour. Nour is a pro-democracy candidate who challenged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in last year's elections. He is in now jail after being charged with fraud by the government.

How does one man rack up $50 million in gambling loses? Pro golfer John Daly says he did, and became notorious for his fast living in the normally tame world of golf. He recounts his adventures in a new memoir, My Life In and Out of the Rough.

The United Nations had viewed its 1999 intervention in East Timor as a success. That intervention allowed the installation of a democratically elected government in the tiny country. Recent violence has people questioning their assumptions about the intervention.

In 1994, Tovan Love and Troy Saunders were teens at a group home in Washington, D.C. They were filled with optimism about the future. Twelve years later, we report on what happened to the young men -- and their dreams.

The race to replace former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) enters the final stretch this week. Cunningham went to prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to taking bribes. Voters in the conservative San Diego-area district will choose between Democratic school board member Francine Busby and former Republican congressman Brian Bilbray. From member station KPBS in San Diego, Alison St. John reports.

As the hurricane season starts, many homeowners along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts are being rocked by soaring insurance rates. In Florida, more than two dozen insurers have left the state. From member station WGCU in Fort Myers, Fla., Russell Lewis reports.

Employers added 75,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department reports. It was the smallest increase since October 2005. At the same time, the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, its lowest reading since the summer of 2001.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki calls for an Iraqi committee to meet with the U.S. military to establish ground rules for raids on Iraqi homes. He said Iraq "totally rejects" conduct such as the reported killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines last fall in Haditha.

The Senate is set to vote on a sweeping revision of immigration policy, the first in two decades. If it passes, a showdown is expected with the House over its version of the immigration bill.

Blackwater, a private security firm, wants to provide peacekeeping services in Darfur. Private contractors have been hired to provide security in Iraq and other places, with mixed results. But Blackwater says it could work under multinational supervision and help reduce civilian suffering.

Each Memorial Day, the bikers of "Rolling Thunder" ride their motorcycles into the nation's capital to call attention to soldiers still missing in action. The tribute raises consciousness... and money... for veteran's causes.

It's hard to imagine summer without a visit to an amusement park... and a heart-stopping rollercoaster ride. Every year, the coasters seem scarier. In Orlando, Disney seeks to raise a coaster's scream quotient while keeping it deceptively slow.

For years, the GOP has enjoyed a comfortable fundraising advantage over Democrats, especially in Senate races. But the latest federal election filings indicate that the Democrats have closed the fundraising gap.

Hezbollah continues to fire large numbers of rockets into northern Israel, while the Israeli military continues its air and artillery strikes on Lebanon. Israeli incursions into south Lebanon have encountered heavier-than-expected resistance from well-organized Hezbollah guerrillas.

A military probe has concluded that U.S. Marines in Iraq killed unarmed Iraqi civilians without provocation. The inquiry alleges that a group of Marines fired on men, women and children while looking for insurgents after an explosion of a roadside bomb killed one of their comrades. Madeleine Brand speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry about the investigation.

Retired Adm. John Hutson, a former judge advocate general in the Navy, talks with Renee Montagne about a memo directing the U.S. military to abide by Article Three of the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of detainees. Hutson is one of three retired officers who recently filed a brief on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees.

The United Nations and international aid groups have made progress fighting AIDS in the developing world, but much is left to be done. Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, talks with Farai Chideya about the epidemic. He is the author of Race Against Time.

Prosecutors say Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, is known by at least 13 aliases and has remained in federal custody. They believe that he scammed at least 21 women across eight states and amassed over $750,000 through years of schemes.

Driskell, a Democrat from Tampa, was the only candidate for the leadership post as of Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the House Democrats.

Excessive fees, loan flipping, variable interest rates, there are many ways a lender can make a killing off your mortgage. Farai Chideya asks Keith Corbett and Azeem Ali how to protect yourself from bad lending practices. Corbett works for the Center for Responsible Lending, and Ali is a foreclosure specialist with Pacific Coast Capital.