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Mifepristone has been FDA-approved for abortion since 2000 and has been used by millions of people.

Donald Trump departed from the Iowa State Fair Saturday in his personal helicopter. Down on the ground, Bernie Sanders gave a teasing apology to his supporters.

Ivan Watson describes watching seven Georgian attack helicopters roaring over the hill in South Ossetia. There are only between 2,000 and 3,000 active fighters in the Georgian army, a stark contrast to Russia's large force.

Kasi Lemmons' film Talk to Me, which opens this weekend, centers on the radio DJ, television personality and activist Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. (played by Don Cheadle). Greene was a driving force in the black community of Washington D.C.; we talk with Lemmons and with Dewey Hughes, who first hired Greene at the D.C. radio station WOL-AM.

Israel stepped up its offensive against the Islamist group Hamas, in response to continued rocket fire from Gaza. The Israeli military has launched more airstrikes against targets in Gaza, and arrested Hamas members in the West Bank. Some Hamas leaders are calling for renewed suicide attacks on Israel.

Herbert Sussan was a young officer in the U.S. military when he directed a film about the human effects of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

John Yoo is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel of the Dept. of Justice. He wrote some of the memos in the new book The Torture Papers, including some pertaining to the Geneva Conventions and the definition of torture. He signed off on the memo denying prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Yoo is currently a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Filmmaker Errol Morris and writer Philip Gourevitch conducted 200 hours of interviews with American soldiers about the prisoner-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. Their book and film, Standard Operating Procedure, are troubling portraits of the human capacity for abuse.

Private Detective Sam Spade still roams the foggy back alleys of the American imagination. His creator, Dashiell Hammett, published The Maltese Falcon 75 years ago this month. We host an appreciation of the novel and its author.

The trip comes as desperation in Gaza mounts, with an estimated 19,000 Palestinians dead.