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Analysts say an aggressive counter-terrorism effort by the Indonesian government has crippled the Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah. Could the latest attacks be an effort by the group to show strength and re-establish ties to al-Qaida?

A White House budget proposal for NASA includes billions of dollars to pay for tools to study Earth-bound problems, such as climate change. At the top of the space agency's list: replacing aging and damaged satellites that monitor ocean temperatures and atmospheric chemicals.

Long-awaited election results show a coalition led by former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has won 91 seats in Iraq's 325-seat Parliament, edging out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bloc. Maliki promptly said he would challenge the results.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made combating sexual violence against women a top priority. But there are many obstacles to change in places such as conflict-ravaged Congo, which is suffering from an epidemic of rape.

The unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds has topped 26 percent. For African-Americans that age, it's 41 percent. Experts worry that this trend could reverse the economic progress African-Americans made during the 1990s.

Tell Me More Producer Rob Sachs and his wife are eagerly expecting their second child. Besides diaper duty and a soon-to-be little one to love, the Sachses are facing a dilemma — what should they name the baby, whose gender they've chosen not to know before birth? Sachs talks about his search for the perfect baby name.

Tamil is a language known for its poetry, but commentator Sandip Roy knows it has another side. Dime-store pulp fiction has a large Tamil-speaking following — and a newly translated anthology is coming to America.

Tracy Morgan, a Saturday Night Live alumnus and one of the stars of NBC's 30 Rock, has a new memoir — I Am the New Black — about growing up in what he calls "Ghetto, USA."

The leaders of the U.S. intelligence community tell a Senate panel that al-Qaida and nuclear arms top the list of national security threats. But senators want to talk about Iraq.

Richard Rogers, who has won architecture's top prize, designs buildings that flaunt their infrastructure — like Centre Pompidou in Paris. But he also has an interest in city planning, and pushes for walkable, welcoming cities. One of his new buildings is part of the World Trade Center site.