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Captain Underpants has once again topped the list of most-challenged books. Author Dav Pilkey says his tighty-whities-clad hero teaches kids a healthy lesson about questioning authority.

A top-secret Defense Department report on the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers was leaked and partially published by The New York Times 40 years ago. Now all 7,000 pages are available in their entirety. "It's the real deal," says the man who organized their release.

London's two top police officials have resigned amid the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal. The developments revealed cash for tips and a coziness between leaders of the department and the company.

During a visit to a Virginia middle school on Monday, President Barack Obama called for reforms to No Child Left Behind. But Cynthia Gordy of The Root takes a look into the education debate, and argues that Obama's new educational reform blueprint may not be as groundbreaking as his calls for action suggest.

In Brazil, the discovery of huge oil deposits has prompted a patriotic outpouring as Brazilians celebrate the country's rise as an oil power. Currently the world's ninth largest oil producer, Brazil believes it may become one of the top five. But a recent spill has brought home the dangers of deep-sea drilling.

Recent appearances by the attorney general and a U.S. attorney at the White House podium have some current and former Justice Department officials worrying about law enforcement independence.

Republicans are now on top in the House, but the economy's still in a rut. When the new Congress convenes, there will be two very different visions of how to get it unstuck. Guy Raz talks about what's ahead with Greg Mankiw, a former economic adviser for George W. Bush; and Laura Tyson, an adviser in the Clinton administration.

When it comes to the NCAA basketball tournament, everybody loves an upset. A 12th-ranked team will beat a No. 5 seed, for example. But the big upset — a 16th-seed beating a No. 1 — has never happened.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday declined to step into the simmering debate over whether the CIA misled Congress for years after 2001. In a letter released this week, Democrats say agency chief Leon Panetta disclosed the long-term deception last month.

Abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah in the months between his capture and the first Justice Department memo authorizing harsh interrogations. A new document shows that the White House may have authorized those techniques.