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When the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines ended its eight-month tour in Afghanistan earlier this year, it came home to Camp Pendleton with an unenviable record. The unit had suffered the highest casualties of the Afghan war to date.

The Justice Department is reviewing nearly all of former President Bush's national security policies — from interrogation to domestic spying. Many of the people President Obama has tapped for key jobs in the department have spent the last eight years criticizing those policies. Their public statements could give a sense of where the department may be headed.

Many of us hold on to old computers because of potentially embarrassing materials on the hard disk. There are, however, a variety of options for those who take the machines to an e-waste disposal site or call the collector to come pick them up.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound trans-Atlantic airliner on Christmas Day, spent much of his life outside his native Nigeria. But those who remember him from his days in Kaduna are trying to sort out what went wrong with this unassuming boy.

The neighborhood of Fort National, one of the worst-hit districts in Haiti's capital, is still awaiting food aid nearly three weeks after the earthquake. Residents spend their grim days searching the rubble for loved ones, and burning bodies they find.

Actor Dennis Hopper has died of complications from prostate cancer. Hopper made a name for himself in the classic films Blue Velvet, Rebel Without a Cause and, most famously, Easy Rider. But his path to enduring fame was far from easy.

Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in Charlie Wilson's War, died Wednesday. He was 76. Melissa Block talks to Michael Vickers, United States assistant secretary of defense for special operations, and a longtime friend and associate of Wilson.

The ground zero of Toyota's meltdown, a modern glass and steel building, can be found in this quiet city of 420,000. The city was already hit hard by the recession, and the spate of other problems in recent days has only added to the auto manufacturer's woes. Old-timers at Toyota say one reason for the company's current difficulties can be found in the Toyota Way, a philosophy that underpins and unites the entire company.

Brain specialists and sports doctors are worrying more about the long-term effects of concussions, especially because millions of kids engage in sports that put them at risk of repeated head injury. Researchers are trying to devise simple ways to determine whether a person has a concussion. One test involves a hockey puck on the end of stick.

On the anniversary of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus, an examination of its impact and public opinion reveals mixed results on both fronts. And three stories show how stimulus funds affected a physician assistant, a youth outreach program and a wind turbine plant.