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The airways, newspapers, magazines are all filled with ads telling you to spend money, despite the hurting economy. Marc Fleishhacker of the ad firm Oglvy & Mather talks with host Jacki Lyden about how companies are trying to get consumers to open their wallets.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was some $10 million in debt at the end of March. Then she lent her campaign $11 million. The campaign won't say what her total debt is. How might Clinton go about paying off some of the bills?

Relief supplies from the United Nations are arriving in Myanmar, following last weekend's deadly cyclone. But U.S. military planes with aid for victims are still being denied. U.N. Under-Secretary General John Holmes talks with Melissa Block.

President Obama's plans for overhauling health care got a checkup from the nation's doctors on Monday. Members of the American Medical Association cheered Obama when he called for a system that would allow them to spend more time treating patients and less time processing insurance forms.

President Obama traveled to St. Louis for a town hall meeting to mark his 100th day in office. Questions dealt with the economy, health care, social security and the environment.

Darryl Jenkins, former executive director of the Aviation Institute at George Washington University, discusses with Melissa Block how mergers will allow airlines to turn a profit, even with soaring fuel costs.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama are trading barbs over the war in Iraq. On Thursday, McCain mocked an answer Obama gave the night before in a debate with Hillary Clinton. A little later, Obama fired back at McCain.

It almost seems perverse to take a fish, that wateriest of creatures, from its ocean home and subject it to the pummeling heat blast of a 450-degree oven. But it's a magical punishment, like that which turns coal into diamonds.

Much of the U.S. continues to be gripped by extreme heat — especially Phoenix. That's where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day for two weeks now.

Campaign finance laws barring political parties from accepting corporate cash don't stop businesses from funding national nominating conventions. Their money is routed through "host committees" — charities set up to help cities pay for the big events.