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Singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli's polularity can be credited to her combination of Sicilian influences and political awarness. Now, Consoli is taking on a different music market with the release of her first U.S. CD.

A wild hog thought to be more than 1,000 pounds was killed by an 11-year-old boy May 3 at Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve. Jerry Cunningham, owner of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford, Ala., was hired to mount its head, and he watched preserve employees use a backhoe to move it.

Beach House's sleepy "Saltwater" never feels weary or tiresome. Instead, it floats along in a wispy haze of skittering drumbeats that rise and fall like heartbeats. As Victoria Legrand sings, "Love you all the time / even though you're not mine," her voice sounds powerful and stripped bare.

Late last year, Rick Springfield reprised his role as Dr. Noah Drake on the long-running ABC daytime drama General Hospital. Springfield talks about why he came back, and his new album.

Hamburg-born Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist, before he died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.

Everybody is talking about "change" — all of the presidential candidates are, anyway. The word factors into every debate and every campaign speech. We think it may be time to diversify the rhetoric a little bit. Michele Norris and Robert Siegel offer a few alternatives to "change."

In God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America, journalist Hanna Rosin follows the lives of home-schooled students as they cope with life at Patrick Henry College. The Virginia school is considered to be the Harvard of home-schooled students.

Turn on an R&B, hip-hop or pop music radio station these days, and you probably will hear the electronically enhanced vocal stylings of T-Pain. But his ubiquity extends beyond radio: He has redefined the ring-tone market and given struggling record companies a glimmer of revenue hope.

Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday, urging the general to end emergency rule as soon as possible and allow free and fair elections.

The mortgage lending giant American Home Mortgage is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The Long Island-based firm says its credit lines are cut off and it may have to liquidate assets. The company has been badly hurt by the downturn in the mortgage market.