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  • Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is grilled about federal domestic surveillance during an appearance at the House Judiciary Committee. Gonzales refused to elaborate on the program, other than to say he believes it is legal. Both Republicans and Democrats accused him of stonewalling.
  • As companies continue to scale back pensions for their workers, some CEOs will earn millions of dollars annually in retirement, according to figures released by the AFL-CIO.
  • The White House is besieged with questions regarding President Bush's role in leaking sensitive data related to Iraq. Former vice presidential aide Lewis Libby has stated that Bush authorized leaks. Press secretary Scott McClellan defended leaking information "in the public interest."
  • Eleven people have died in the massive wildfires that continue to spread in the panhandle of Texas. Michele Norris talks with Kim Powell, the Fire Chief of Pampa, Texas, where four people have died from the fires.
  • Andrew McBride, a former U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Virginia, talks with Robert Siegel about the sentencing phase of federal death-penalty trials, and what jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case might consider as they deliberate his punishment for conspiring with al-Qaida.
  • The body of Slobodan Milosevic arrives in Belgrade, Serbia on Wednesday, five years after the former Serb President was sent to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes. The Serbian government has refused a state funeral for Milosevic; he will be buried on the grounds of his provincial home.
  • A new poll of likely voters finds support dropping for President Bush and his party on issues of foreign policy and national security -- areas of debate they once dominated.
  • The mystery of the flaws in one of Norman Rockwell's most famous illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post has been solved: The original has been found, hidden in a secret compartment in a family home, while the painting believed to be the original turns out to be a masterful forgery.
  • A wide range of tunes for children is climbing the music charts — and much of it is acceptable to adult ears. Stefan Shepherd, who writes the kids music blog Zooglobble, talks to Melissa Block about his current favorite songs and artists.
  • Some people still write with fountain pens. Some still love their old manual and electric typewriters. But typewriter repairmen are a vanishing breed. Up on the eighth floor of the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, Paul Schweitzer has been fixing and cleaning typewriters for 40 years.
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