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The Democratic-led Congress officially waves the white flag of surrender on its top domestic issue: the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. Democrats repeatedly sought to increase funding for the program, but in the end passed a bill to continue SCHIP in its current form.

President Obama is expected to make his first trip to the Pentagon this week to meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The visit follows the president's meetings last week with his top national security advisers on Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has said he wants to draw down forces in Iraq and then increase them in Afghanistan.

Despite the recession, consumers are expected to spend a lot of money on consumer technology. The top trends for 2009 include touch-screen displays, electronic book readers, high-definition flash camcorders, netbooks and climate control systems.

An exuberant fictionalization of the Chess Records story, Darnell Martin's movie constructs a wobbly history. But the film is truer to one essential thing: the music. And that may be just enough to put it in the rock-flick Top 10.

The New York Police Department and the FBI don't see eye to eye when it comes to counterterrorism. But the FBI has a new man in New York, and one of his top jobs will be to help patch things up between the bureau and the local police.

Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis talks about the college football season. Alabama and Texas Tech are strong candidates for the championship game, and president-elect Barack Obama has weighed in about the faults of the Bowl Championship Series rankings.

The success of the social networking site Facebook has spawned knockoffs around the world. Now Facebook is poking back. Last month, it filed a lawsuit against Germany's top social networking site, saying that it copied the "look and feel" of Facebook.

Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this week will update members of Congress about the progress in Iraq. Also on Capitol Hill, thoughts are on the presidential race: Hillary Clinton's top strategist quit the campaign Sunday.

Colombia's leftist FARC guerrilla group has suffered a number of blows in the past year. Several top commanders have died and its most high-profile hostages were rescued in a daring raid. Now it's beginning to suffer defections among jailed rebels.

NPR has learned that the raid by helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations forces in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaida leadership before the Bush team leaves office.