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Doctors said Tuesday that tests show Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. A brain specialist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where the 76-year-old Kennedy has been resting since a seizure over the weekend, said the senator has a tumor known as a glioma in his left parietal lobe.

After weeks of anticipation, Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden faced off in the one and only Vice Presidential debate last night. Law professor Joel Goldstein, of St. Louis University, and presidential debate expert Alan Schroeder, of Northeastern University discuss the highs and lows of both candidates' debate performance.

The government announced Tuesday that it plans to buy huge amounts of short-term debts from companies. The Fed will buy "commercial paper," a short-term financing mechanism that many companies use to finance their day-to-day operations, like meeting payroll or purchasing supplies.

Hurricane Gustav has made landfall southwest of New Orleans. The levees there are holding, but the system is still vulnerable in some spots. We check in with people still in New Orleans about what is going on there. A weather blogger also explain the science behind hurricanes and where Hurricane Gustav is headed now.

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, the first benchmark of every new presidency is 100 days. Much like Roosevelt, President Obama has big plans for his first 100, but historians still debate the extent to which the New Deal got the United States out of the Depression.

When a U.S. Airways jetliner landed in the Hudson River yesterday, a plane full of passengers braced for the worst. But a calm-headed staff and an ace pilot prevented a disaster. Now some are saying the pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, could run for mayor.

When CBS correspondent Byron Pitts was 12 years old, he had a debilitating stutter and a terrible secret: he couldn't read. In his new memoir, Step Out On Nothing, Pitts describes how, with faith and family, he overcame illiteracy to become an award-winning correspondent.

Vapid talk shows, celebrity gossip, empty promises that you, too, can be happy and rich. Writer Chris Hedges took on war and the Christian right. Now, he targets pop culture and what he calls the cultural embrace of fantasy.

The Obama family is taking a summer break. They're scheduled to arrive today on Martha's Vineyard, where they'll spend a week in the sun and out of the spotlight. Or at least they'll try to. Host Liane Hansen talks to Mike Seccombe, senior writer for the Vineyard Gazette about what residents have been doing to prepare.

Earlier this week, the Army released its account of what went wrong after the United States invaded Iraq. A military historian who worked on the project and three officers interviewed for the project discuss it.