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New Orleans today began allowing residents from eight of the city's 18 postal zip codes to return home as part of a phased return program. Many areas of the city still lack electricity and clean water.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller tells a grand jury what she knows about how CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was revealed to the public. The Times says Miller's source was Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney.

Beginning on Jan.1, 2006, every 8 seconds, another North American baby boomer will be turning 60. That's around 11,000 each day — and 4.5 million each year. So what will it mean for society — and the nation's finances. David Gardner talks about the changing face of retirement with Ken Dychtwald, author of The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life.

The House majority leader was indicted and forced to step aside. A new chief justice of the United States was confirmed, but a battle looms over a second nominee. It's a dramatic time in American politics.

American forces launch a new offensive against insurgents in Iraq's Anbar province -- the third in four months. U.S. officials say the targeted area is a major source of continuing difficulties in the region.

The New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail Thursday after striking a deal to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of a CIA agent.

Steve Inskeep talks to Wayne Slater, senior political writer of the Dallas Morning News, about Ronnie Earle. Earle is the district attorney leading the charges against Tom DeLay.

Thousands have ordered Acu-Gen's Baby Gender Mentor, which claims to give conclusive proof of the sex of a fetus earlier than a sonogram. But some mothers and scientists say the small biotech company can't deliver on its promises.

Utah has welcomed New Orleans hurricane evacuees, placing them in apartments and generally putting out the welcome mat. Despite dramatic differences between the two locales, many evacuees say they will stay in Utah.

In 1992, a former KGB archivist smuggled the Soviet Union's darkest secrets out of Russia. A new book based on highly classified documents chronicles the KGB's exploits in the Third World.

Rosa Gwinn and her partner made a New Year's resolution to visit every remaining duckpin bowling alley in the United States. Gwinn talks about their mission and why the sport is so difficult.

Larry Appelbaum of the Library of Congress recordings division talks about previously undiscovered tapes of a 1957 Carnegie Hall performance of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.

At least 1,000 people are believe dead in Pakistan and India after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit early Saturday morning. The quake was centered about 60 miles north of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

Rapper Emmanuel Jal was one of the "Lost Boys" — youths caught up in violence in Sudan. He later escaped to Kenya. Now he's making music about peace. His new CD is Ceasefire.

Weeks of rain have brought on mudslides throughout Central America. Guatemala is the hardest hit country with more than 600 people dead and hundreds more missing.

Studs Terkel has interviewed some of the world's most familiar musicians. In And They All Sang he's collected interviews with Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Ravi Shankar and others.

Acting Director David Paulison tells the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will review no-bid contracts awarded after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The contracts are worth millions of dollars.

Singer Donovan Leitch is known best by his first name alone. He has a new box set, Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan. It's a remastered CD/DVD set which covers his work from 1964 to 2004.

Youth Radio commentator Calen Robertson remembers childhood days during which he stayed with his divorced dad at "borrowed" houses -- a network of friends' homes where he and his brothers could briefly live with their dad in a joint-custody limbo.

In Mexico, a new campaign to protect endangered sea turtle eggs has been launched across the country with the help of a controversial spokesperson: Playboy model, singer and pin-up icon Dorismar. But some women's groups are unhappy with the campaign.

With the peak of the winter lettuce-growing season in Southern California coming in Janury, a labor shortage is prompting fears of rotting crops. Growers say better border enforcement and better jobs have led to fewer migrant workers.

The great apes are in trouble -- the world's gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans face imminent extinction. But a new coalition of scientists and governments called GRASP could save primate habitats in 23 nations where they cling to life.

The Department of Energy has been quietly working on a grand plan for nuclear power to be included in next year's budget. Ideas for the Global Nuclear Energy Initiative include reprocessing nuclear fuel so it can be re-used in reactors -- a process the United States abandoned earlier.

The District of Columbia has developed plans to deal with a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. But much depends on local neighborhood officials, and some are not so confident about their ability to cope.

A non-profit community kitchen in San Francisco is part of a growing movement to launch small food businesses around the country. Reporter Pauline Bartolone examines La Cocina's focus on poor immigrant women.