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California's National Guard members and firefighters will be working to free people who are still snowed in.

Republican Sen. John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his presidential running mate, a surpise decision that pundits scrambling to learn more about the first-term governor. NPR's John Ydstie offers analysis on Palin's selection and what it means for McCain's prospects in November.

Around the country people are talking about the Wall Street bailout. Rallies are planned in some cities against the proposal, as John McCain and Barack Obama meet in Washington with President Bush to help work out a solution.

The keynote address for the opening night of the Democratic National Convention will come from a woman who might become the country's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

Today on the show: We're going small. We ask some of the smartest people we know what little thing they would change to improve the world.

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will not go to jail for lying in the CIA leak investigation. President Bush has wiped away Libby's 30-month prison term, calling the sentence too harsh. Writers from newspaper editorial pages discuss the Libby commutation.

President Bush's speech to the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday addresses intelligence documents on al-Qaida. The White House says the documents show that Osama Bin Laden sought a greater al-Qaida presence in Iraq.

President Bush announces that more than a dozen high-value terrorism suspects have been transferred to the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The president says the men had been held at secret CIA prisons around the world.

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is set to appear before the World Bank board behind closed doors. This week, the bank is due to give its final decision on whether Wolfowitz should remain as bank president. The question at hand is whether Wolfowitz violated rules by arranging a pay raise for his bank-employed girlfriend.

The biography Richard M. Nixon, the latest installment in the American Presidents Series, portrays the 37th president as a paranoid leader who abused alcohol and drugs, had few friends and was obsessed with his image. Elizabeth Drew, the book's author, says she now believes Nixon to have been unfit.