Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy is one Democrat on the Judiciary Committee who has already indicated he does not want to the hearings to go smoothly.

We speak to Douglas Holtz Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, about the economy and the federal deficit.

The last four days in Iraq have been one of the deadliest for the U.S. since the American occupation began.

A it turns out some postings on websites that offer housing to Katrina victims are explicitly racist.

Health columnist Judy Foreman writes about new research on grieving.

We speak with filmmaker David Sutherland about his documentary on PBS.