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The rising death toll and number of insurgent attacks in Iraq has forced the U.S. to add troops in Baghdad to try and reverse the trend in the country's capital. The U.S. plans to eventually turn over security responsibility to Iraqis.

The bill creates offices at DOJ, DHS, and the FBI to track domestic terror threats. GOP lawmakers argue it could allow federal officials to ensnare parents, a charge DOJ rejects.

Farai Chideya talks with Joe Richman, head of the nonprofit radio production company Radio Diaries, and Thembi Ngubane, a young, HIV-positive woman who recorded an audio diary charting her life in South Africa with Richman's help.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki presented a 24-point national reconciliation plan Sunday. It outlines terms under which some insurgents would be given amnesty. It also puts forward other initiatives, like a reconstruction campaign. But the specifics of the plan haven't been worked out.

Super stock-picker Warren Buffett pledges stock worth about $37 billion to charitable foundations, including more than $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett biographer Roger Lowenstein discusses the move with Madeleine Brand.

A correction published today on the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site undermines a key feature of Merck's defense against the thousands of lawsuits filed over its painkiller Vioxx.

The newest movie installment of the Superman franchise opens this week, but some Superman mysteries remain unanswered. Physics professor James Kakalios explains the physics behind the superhero's famous powers.

Investment banker Frank Quattrone, once a power in California's Silicon Valley, avoids a third trial on obstruction and witness tampering charges with the acceptance by a New York judge of an agreement between Quattrone and prosecutors.

A theater served children in devastated New Orleans this summer, after many of the city's programs for youth were washed away with last year's floods.

Kamran Nazeer's memoir Send in the Idiots recalls his days at a school for autistic children. He tracks down former classmates and explores how they are handling their autism as adults.