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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee to urge approval of the Bush administration's latest emergency funding request. The Bush administration has requested $91 billion, mainly to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The retrial of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and Chief Financial Officer Mark H. Swartz ends in convictions for both men on charges including grand larceny and stock fraud. They were accused of stealing more than $600 million from the company.

Prices for stock in Google keep climbing. James Stewart, SmartMoney magazine editor at large, discusses investing in the Internet search engine -- when it's time to sell and why it's so hard to do it.

It's been too dangerous for many Ukrainians to leave their house — let alone make an escape. But some have found ways to cross the frontlines, navigating dangerous check points, to safer areas.

Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington University Law School has identified five different types of legal conservatism. Rosen discusses these distinctions as well as the category of conservatism he applies to Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts.

Pharmaceutical company Merck will appeal Friday's $253-million jury award in the death of a man who had taken the painkiller Vioxx. But thousands of cases await the company in state and federal court.

For a decade, a local billboard on land along I-65 north of Montgomery, Ala., read: "Go to church or the Devil will get you!" This week, the billboard changed to endorse a political candidate. W.S. Newell, the 84-year-old property owner, tells Scott Simon why he made the change.

President Bush visits New Orleans and nearby parishes that were hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. The president spent the night aboard the USS Iwo Jima docked in the Mississippi River near downtown New Orleans.

Two pitching-rich ballclubs meet in the World Series. The host Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros are definitely well-armed. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ron Rapoport and Scott Simon preview the matchup.

Around the world, landmines kill and injure thousands of people a year, most of them civilians. The Biden administration is restricting their use and continuing to help countries clear minefields.