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Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, begins testimony as the key prosecution witness against his former bosses, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. In testimony, Fastow directly connects Skilling to a conspiracy to minimize losses and make the company's earnings look better.

A team at Stanford University has reversed memory loss in old mice by flooding their brains with spinal fluid taken from young animals. The finding may hold promise for Alzheimer's research.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC discusses the Transport Workers Union, its pugnacious leader, Roger Toussaint, and the various pension, pay and health care issues that are at the center of the New York City transit labor dispute.

The Senate votes to end the filibuster on Texas Judge Priscilla Owen, meaning she could be confirmed as soon as Wednesday to take a federal judgeship. That is the first result of a compromise by 14 senators of both parties to avert a showdown over the Senate's tradition of filibusters. Senate Republicans are clearly less pleased with that agreement than their Democratic counterparts.

Fifth-term Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania harkens back to another era in the Senate, when both parties had members who felt most at home in the political center. Specter's seniority has made him chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, putting him in the middle of the fight over the federal judiciary.

The bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan was a turning point for Biden's presidency, marking the end of his popularity and the start of a difficult political year.

Big on ideas but short on policy specifics, the agenda keeps with a tradition established with 1994's "Contract with America" where the minority party releases their priorities ahead of Election Day.

Extreme heat across California is causing trouble in schools. It's straining aging air conditioning systems, making recess dangerous and highlighting ventilation problems in many classrooms.

It has been a year since the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Some of the United States' strongest allies were vocal in their criticism, but how do they view the U.S. today?

The iconic rock singer has written a book called Just Kids about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The two met when they were young artists just starting out in New York in the late 1960s.