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  • When making the case for his job policies, the president talks a lot about worker retraining, infrastructure spending, innovation and exports. His guests offer some real-world examples for Obama to cite.
  • The court did not rule on the constitutional issues raised by the lawsuits.
  • A fossil find in a South African cave has scientists both excited and puzzled: It could be the missing link between our ape-like ancestors and modern humans. The mix of primitive and modern traits is also forcing scientists to re-examine the process of human evolution.
  • Two Boy Scouts eagerly await the opening of the more than 10,000-acre new camp planned in West Virginia. The camp is expected to be completed and open by July 2013.
  • Afghanistan has probably changed more than any other country since the Sept. 11 attacks, and yet most young people have little knowledge of what happened that day, or how it led to the arrival of U.S. troops.
  • The president says there is "nothing controversial" in his latest jobs program. It's time, he says, to "actually do something to help the economy." And he's laying out a plan he says has bipartisan appeal.
  • President Obama presented his plan for job creation. For more, Robert Siegel talks to Rep. Tom Price, a Georgia Republican.
  • On Sept. 11, 2001, New York's Port Authority Police Department lost 37 of its officers — the largest loss suffered by any police department in U.S. history. Two former officers paid Ground Zero a visit this week, and talked about the effort to recover.
  • The online retail giant has enjoyed a huge competitive advantage by not collecting sales taxes — as brick and mortar stores do. Consumers pay that much less for the same goods. But now a deal has been reached that could hasten the day consumers nationwide pay tax on things they buy online.
  • The death of Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, took on iconic status after a photographer captured an image of rescuers carrying the priest from the World Trade Center. Two men share their thoughts about that day: a cop who helped carry Judge and the priest's best friend.
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