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Shanghai was once home to thousands of Jews, serving as a refuge during World War II. Now a new Jewish center has opened, the first in China in 50 years, amid efforts to preserve the city's Jewish history.

A federal mental health agency says as many as a half-million people who lived along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast may need help for depression, anger, and other problems as they try to rebuild their lives and face the prospect of new storms.

Traci Hong understands the frustrations and ambitions of immigrants. Hong, an immigration advocate who herself emigrated as a child from South Korea, says proposals to make English the official language are misguided.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki meets with President Bush at the White House. They are expected to discuss the ongoing crisis in Lebanon, and the continuing sectarian violence in Iraq.

In the series, Christian Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.

Motorcycle Week in Laconia, N.H., brings thousands of bikers to town. And many have a hankering for a special memento to remind them of the trip. Shannon Mullen visits some of the temporary tattoo shops that have been set up to sell souvenirs that are anything but temporary.

A decade after the Welfare Reform Act gave states grants to run their own anti-poverty programs, many can cite much progress in moving people from welfare to the workforce. None more than Wyoming. But there are concerns about the working poor.

Presidential adviser Karl Rove may have played a part in loosening EPA regulations for a Republican oil executive, according to an article in The Los Angeles Times. According to the article by Times reporter Tom Hamburger, Rove received a 2002 letter from Republican activist and Texas oil tycoon Ernest Angelo about the regulation. Robert Siegel talks with Hamburger.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that regulators may have misinterpreted the federal Clean Water Act when they refused to allow two Michigan men to build on wetlands they own. The 5-4 decision came after debate over whether government can extend protection for wetlands miles away from waterways.

U.S. Episcopalians elect a woman to head the more than 2-million-member denomination. Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada is the first female bishop to head the national churches in the worldwide Anglican Communion.