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Elizabeth Wynne Johnson examines the environmental record of Dirk Kempthorne. The governor of Idaho is President Bush's nominee to be secretary of the Interior.

Federal documents suggest that the Sago mine, where 12 men died after being trapped by an explosion Monday, has a record of committing serious safety violations.

Official election results give a center-left coalition led by Romano Prodi a thin majority in both houses of Italy's parliament. Prodi rejects calls by current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to form a broad-based government of national unity. Also in Italy, authorities nab a mafia boss sought for more than 40 years.

Many people living along the northern Israeli border have fled to shelters. In one shelter, a group of older Russian émigrés live underground as Hezbollah rockets pepper their region.

The community in Buffalo, New York, is holding vigils to honor the victims of Saturday's shooting. President Biden traveled there Tuesday to talk with the families of the victims.

Before last Thursday, North Korea claimed to have not a single case of COVID-19. Now it's battling what it claims is its first outbreak.

Now that snowboarding has become mainstream, a new "alternative" sport is catching the eye of adrenaline junkies in select ski areas. It's called airboarding -- sort of the bodyboarding equivalent to surfing the slopes. Reporter Tom Banse visits a small resort in the Pacific Northwest to see what it's like to fly down the slopes belly-first.

Wal-Mart shareholders are scheduled to meet Friday, and will likely encounter pressure from some religious groups, which hold shares in the nation's biggest retail chain, to adopt policies that address the pay gap between Wal-Mart executives and lower-level workers.

Perhaps nowhere is the standoff over Iran's nuclear enrichment program followed more closely than in Los Angeles' Iranian-American community. Known as Tehrangeles, it's the biggest community of Iranians outside Iran.

Women have made great strides in many professional fields, but few women lead major symphony orchestras in the United States. Celeste Headlee of Detroit Public Radio reports on why female conductors are so rare.