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The Marines known as "America's Battalion" are heading to Afghanistan as part of the 21,000 additional forces President Obama is deploying to bolster the war effort. The mission of these Marines will take them to places American forces have rarely been in southern Afghanistan, the heart of the Taliban militant operations.

Some progressives rejoiced at the news that White House adviser Larry Summers is stepping down, but Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic argues that they should rethink their position. Summers has moved increasingly to the left on many economic issues, and it is possible that his replacement could be even farther to the right than he is.

With college application deadlines looming, high schools are looking for ways to reduce student stress. Some schools have done away with Advanced Placement classes, while others are focusing on teaching kids how to handle the stress with yoga classes, breathing exercises and therapy dogs.

Incumbent Gov. Rick Perry holds the top spot in the polls, ahead of sitting Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Perry figured out early how to ride the tide of conservative discontent by billing himself as a candidate of change. Meanwhile, a Tea Party candidate is making a surprisingly strong run.

For the state's open U.S. Senate seat, the two top Republican contenders are David McCormick and Mehmet Oz. And, as in so many GOP races this year, there's another major player — Donald Trump.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is not the first general to get in hot water for disparaging a president and his policies. There's a long line of others who did that and lost their jobs.

The information, from a former al-Qaida member once detained at Guantanamo Bay, allowed U.S. investigators to disable a plot to place package bombs on cargo planes bound for the U.S.

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh lashed out this week at a New York Times reporter, calling him part of a radical environmental movement. Reporter Andrew Revkin could be considered fairly revolutionary — but perhaps not in the way Limbaugh thinks.

AT&T has a new pricing plan for iPhone and iPad users. It changes the way the phone company has charged people for downloading data from their mobile devices. Matt Buchanan, of the technology blog Gizmodo.com, talks to Steve Inskeep about AT&T's pricing shift, which could influence other companies.

The tribe says these companies regularly filled large, suspicious prescriptions within the Nation's 14 counties in northeastern Oklahoma, leading to hundreds of tribal members' deaths.