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The Iraq Study Group, whose report is supposed to come out next month, has created four different "expert working groups" to advise them. Shibley Telhami, holder of the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution is one of them. He speaks with host Andrea Seabrook.

Audio recordings of detainee hearings at Guantanamo Bay illuminate the process. One of six detainees whose lawyers provided the tapes is heard saying it was the first time he had heard the accusations against him, three years after his arrest.

The world woke to the news that former President Gerald Ford died Tuesday evening. Day to Day offers a brief audio remembrance of his presidency.

The full U.S. Senate may vote as soon as Wednesday on the nomination of Robert Gates to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense. The vote comes after the Committee on Armed Services unanimously approved Gates' nomination. The former CIA director told senators that the United States was not winning the war in Iraq.

I. King Jordan, outgoing president of Gallaudet University, the world's only university dedicated to deaf and hard of hearing students, appears in his first interview since the protests that locked down the school’s campus for nearly one month.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus arrives this week as the new U.S. commander in Iraq. His career has been marked by building and maintaining key relationships with superiors and subordinates.

For cancer patients, death hovers over everything. It feels sometimes that Death is sitting in the corner, looking at his watch. And when it comes to funerals, there's really one major issue: How do we want to be remembered?

Melissa Block talks with Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) about what compromises the Democrats are willing to make on the Iraq war spending bill that President Bush is expected to veto.

A new study from Stanford University suggests that pollution from ethanol could be even worse than from traditional gasoline. Study author Mark Jacobson, of Stanford's department of civil and environmental engineering, explains.

In his new book, former CIA director George Tenet offers his version of Bush administration conversations that preceded the war in Iraq. In an interview, he reiterates that a "historical mindset" about Saddam Hussein led intelligence analysts astray.

President Bush addressed a convocation of students, faculty and families at Virginia Tech today, as thousands of people gathered to mourn the killings of 32 people by a gunman Monday. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed himself just as police were arriving on the scene.

The six foreign-born men accused of a plot to attack the Army base at Fort Dix, N.J., led seemingly ordinary American lives in Cherry Hill, N.J., the FBI says. But a copy of a video shows them firing assault weapons and praising jihad.

President Vladimir Putin often is praised for creating stability and ending the lawlessness and corruption under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. But not everyone agrees: Some say Putin has stymied political progress in the process.

A day after the first major debate of the 2008 campaign, Democratic presidential candidates press the flesh in South Carolina. The annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner is Friday night, followed by a fish fry hosted by Rep. James Clyburn.

U.S. military officials are searching the south of Baghdad for three American soldiers who went missing on Saturday. A group with ties to al-Qaida claims to have captured several soldiers in the attack.

As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gives a House panel his side of U.S. attorney firings, his answers stay the same. But questions from the House are not as harsh as those he faced at the Senate.

NBC News airs video and photos sent to the network Monday, apparently by Seung-hui Cho, the 23-year-old man blamed for the mass killings at Virginia Tech. Investigators are evaluating the cryptic, rambling tapes to gain perspective on the onslaught.

Robert Siegel talks with budget analyst Stan Collender, managing director of Qorvis Communications, a Washington-area based public-relations firm. Collender explains what's in the president's new budget plan, what's not in it, and whether it all adds up.

Documentary filmmaker Robert Levi's latest work focuses on the life and times of jazz composer Billy Strayhorn. Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest jazz standards, yet he remains relatively unknown to American music lovers. Levi talks about the film with Tony Cox.

President Bush releases his proposed budget for fiscal year 2008. The president is calling for an increase in defense spending, and a gradual decrease in funding for government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Economist Julianne Malveaux reviews the proposed plan with Tony Cox.

The House debates a Democratic-led resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq. Approval of the resolution is expected Friday. Meanwhile, every member of the House gets a say.

The White House is handing over internal documents that show it considered firing all 93 attorneys two years ago. Eventually, eight attorneys were dismissed.

Eight U.S. attorneys may have been fired by the Bush administration for political reasons.

Next month, the United States will enter its fifth year of war in Iraq. The conflict has had a deep impact on communities across the country — and perhaps nowhere more than Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, home to two active military divisions.

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