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In Iowa's large cities and small, Republican presidential hopefuls press the flesh, give speeches and host town meetings. Their accelerated campaigning comes less than eight weeks before the first official voting of the 2008 presidential contest happens in Iowa.

The Black AIDS Institute and LIFE AIDS recently held their fourth annual Community Town Hall on HIV/AIDS. Hear from a panel of young people who spoke about living and working with HIV and AIDS. They share their thoughts on combating the disease.

Scripted TV show runners are writers who oversee production and creative decision-making. They are members of the striking Writers Guild, but they have duties that go far beyond writing, and are obligated to do their producing jobs even when they are forbidden to write because of the strike. Several high-profile show runners however, have decided not to do any work at all.

Earlier this week, six high-profile televangelists received an unexpected request from Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley. The Senate Finance Committee will be investigating the financial records of the televangelists' so-called "mega-ministries," which have the same tax status as churches.

Adam Posen, deputy director and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discusses how the weak U.S. dollar, the American real estate market and consumer confidence are affecting the U.S. and global economy. Posen talks with Robert Siegel.

The government of Georgia imposed a state of emergency in its capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday after several days of anti-government protests. Opposition leaders say they want early elections to end a corrupt and authoritarian regime.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration will review its financial assistance to Pakistan. The announcement comes one day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule and suspended the nation's constitution.

A waitress causes a stir on the political blogs. The waitress at a Maid-Rite restaurant in Iowa says she did not get a tip after serving presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democrat from New York. But the Clinton campaign says a $100 tip was left at the diner.

To catch a killer, it can take a lot more than just dusting for fingerprints. Criminal profilers use psychological clues to figure out what motivates a murderer and anticipate the killer's next move. Author Malcolm Gladwell and former F.B.I. agent John Douglas explain how profilers get inside criminal minds.

Police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad detain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, preventing her from leading a protest march against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of the state of emergency. There are also reports that thousands of Bhutto supporters have been rounded up.

The Bush administration has imposed new rules for the State Children's Health Insurance Program that state officials say may result in loss of coverage for thousands of kids. Congress has been working to renew the program, which is set to expire at the end of next month.

There's an unusual job fair taking place this week, but you can't get there by plane or car, or drop off your resume in person. You have to travel in cyberspace — to the popular virtual world called Second Life.

Computer data thieves who hit the Monster.com job site managed to acquire confidential information posted by more than 1 million job seekers, a company official says. The attack on Monster's site was executed from a server in Ukraine.

More than 40 major fires are still burning out of control across much of southern Greece. Dozens have died, towns have been destroyed and villagers are mounting desperate firefighting efforts.

In their fast-approaching fall migration, birds will face numerous obstacles as they head south. Nighttime fliers can get confused by all the urban lights and crash into skyscrapers. In Chicago, a group called the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has partnered with doormen and building managers to help the birds flying south.

Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleads guilty to a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge. Vick admitted helping kill six to eight pit bulls and supplying money for gambling on the fights. He will be sentenced on Dec. 10.

Michael Vick made a public apology Monday after formally entering a guilty plea to a dogfighting conspiracy charge. He apologized to the NFL and to his team, the Atlanta Falcons, and said he would redeem himself.

Grace Paley, an iconic and idiosyncratic American literary voice, died Wednesday. She was 84, and had battled breast cancer. Paley wrote short stories and poems, and much of her writing was inspired by the people she knew growing up in New York, the daughter of Russian Jews. Her first collection of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love, was published in 1959. She spoke to Terry Gross in 1985.

After a record number of deaths in Philadelphia last year, one anti-violence poster offered residents a gritty look at what was going on in their community. But not everyone in city government was pleased with the pictures against crime. Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Monica Yant Kinney and designer Frank Baseman talk about the anti-violence posters.

10 years ago, U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden stunned the world by revealing government officials were surveilling private citizens across the globe. A decade later, has anything changed about government surveillance?

Crowded skies, known to pilots as mutual traffic, are a large part of air travel's woes. Mike Sammartino, director of system operations for the Federal Aviation Administration, attributes overcrowding to airlines' overloaded schedules. He speaks with Renee Montagne

Karl Rove, President Bush's closest political adviser, is a longtime member of Bush's inner circle. He was nicknamed "the architect" by the president for designing the strategy that twice captured the White House.

Volatile stock activity defines the U.S. market as investors absorb the Federal Reserve's commitment to provide enough cash to underpin a wobbly credit system. The Fed is hoping to quell turmoil on Wall Street created by a credit crunch that set off panic in the United States and abroad.

This week's Science out of the Box question — What Makes Sticky Things Stick --was inspired by a recent article about a synthetic adhesive combining the properties that allow geckos to cling to a wall and mussels to cleave to a rocky shore. Jerry Bell, a senior scientist with the American Chemical Association, reveals the basic chemistry of these phenomena.

Toy maker Mattel has announced another round of toy recalls. It's the second time this month that the company has withdrawn toys made in China. Tuesday's announcment covers some toys that contain lead paint, and some have small magnets that can be swallowed.