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The Defense Department bars several witnesses from testifying in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the secret intelligence Able Danger unit. The Pentagon says "security concerns" prevented it from discussing the classified program in a public forum.

Demonstrations against the war in Iraq were held in many cities around the nation and the world Saturday. One of the largest was in Washington, D.C., where tens of thousands of people turned out.

Immigration is not rising inexorably, but instead mirrors the U.S. business cycle, rising and falling with U.S. demand for workers, a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center argues. Underlying the debate is a more fundamental question: Does immigration satisfy the needs of a healthy economy or undermine it?

September 27 marks the centennial of the most famous equation in the world: E=mc². On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein submitted the paper that laid out the formula. We hear archive tape, and physicist John Rigden, author of Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, explains the seminal formula.

Following a Monday briefing on Hurricane Rita's effect on the oil and natural gas infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, President Bush says he is willing to use the nation's strategic petroleum reserves to make up for any shortages caused by hurricane damage.

Don Adams, known for TV eternity as Agent 86 on the 1960s series Get Smart!, has died at age 82. Adams played Maxwell Smart, a clueless secret agent who puzzled villains and his boss with his confusing explanations and farcical combat style.

Many residents in south Florida may face power outages for a month or longer as a result of Hurricane Wilma. Damage in the area is now being assessed: Citrus growers report crop losses from the high winds, and storm damage kept the Miami Airport closed until late Tuesday.

At least 2,000 U.S. forces have been killed in Iraq since the United States invaded the country two and a half years ago. With the support of a majority of Americans waning, many Senate Democrats are reconsidering their votes to authorize President Bush's military action in Iraq -- an issue that continues to split the party.

The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 created a legal process for authorizing wiretaps. But the intelligence community has resisted legal restrictions, especially related to the war on terrorism.