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The guys in this week's Barbershop weigh in on the arrival of the first family's new dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog. Also, Oscar Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx recently had some harsh words for tween music sensation Miley Cyrus (for which he has since apologized).

The global recession has made the outlook for the oil and gas industry grim. Demand and prices are low, and some oil-rich countries are postponing drilling projects. The political landscape in Washington, which was friendly to the oil industry under the previous administration, has changed.

When word got out that insurance powerhouse AIG was going ahead with massive bonuses to some executives, despite the company's acceptance of federal bailout money, the reaction from the White House and Congress was immediate: outrage.

The state of Massachusetts has announced a multimillion-dollar settlement in a lawsuit with Bechtel/Parsons Brinkerhoff and other contractors over the controversial Big Dig project.

The long-awaited application, 8,600 pages long, is so big it had to be delivered by truck. In order for licenses to be granted, the documents need to show that the proposed Yucca Mountain repository won't leak dangerous amounts of radioactive material.

In a highly unusual and personal letter to the world's Roman Catholic bishops, Pope Benedict XVI said that not searching the Internet for information about a Holocaust-denying bishop before lifting his excommunication was an "unforeseen mishap" that caused tensions between Christians and Jews.

A 2009 law gives the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products for the first time. New York Times reporter Duff Wilson, who covers the tobacco industry, explains what the ruling means -- and what impact it could have on the industry.

Veterans who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camps gathered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. The museum's curators say this week's gathering is the one of the last chances they'll have to hear these veterans' stories -- and to thank them.

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. For the next two months, the man who shot him, James Earl Ray, was able to evade the FBI during a massive worldwide manhunt. Writer Hampton Sides traces the movements of both King and Ray in his new book, Hellhound on His Trail.

After more than two years of wrangling, District of Columbia schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has reached a tentative agreement with the city's teachers union on a new contract. The deal could become a model for efforts nationwide to tie teacher pay to student performance.