Initial reports from Sri Lanka and Indonesia suggest that at least 21,000 people were killed and more than a million people were left homeless by the weekend's devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

We talk with John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal and Tim Grieve of Salon about the future of the Democratic Party.

Some travelers are still stranded after this weekend's air line baggage debacle. We'll find out what caused it, and when people can expect to get their stuff back.

A look at the Ukrainian elections.

Our business contributor Mark Mills looks back at the year 2004 in business.

We look at the situation for editorial cartoonists. By some estimates, the number of newspaper staff cartoonists has shrunk to only about 90, from a high of 200.