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The United States will need a prison like that in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until the war on terror is over, says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Recent reports had suggested that the facility be closed.

Legislators in Washington are debating the Real ID measure, which contains a provision that would make seeking asylum in the U.S. more challenging. Marianne McCune of member station WNYC has the story of one applicant from Sierra Leone.

Social scientist and educator Kenneth Clark died Sunday in New York at age 90. Clark and his wife Mamie were the originators of the famous doll studies on the harmful effects of racism on black children, cited in the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregation in public schools.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is the creator and executive producer of Gilmore Girls a TV show on the WB network. The show is about a single mother and her daughter who are best friends. The mother was a teenager when she got pregnant with her daughter. The show is now in its fifth season. Season three is now out on DVD.

A new study shows an experimental drug helps people with Type 2 diabetes lose weight, control their blood sugar, and improve their cholesterol readings. But some medical obesity specialists caution that potential risks -- including depression -- might not justify the benefits.

Wal-Mart is closing a store in a small northern Quebec city after employees voted to unionize. The closure has the blue-collar town -- and the store's employees -- divided over who's to blame.

The House of Representatives approves an $82 billion supplemental spending bill that also seeks to impose new restrictions on state-issued driver's licenses. The package is a compromise worked out with the Senate, which is expected to add its approval next week.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes next week on John Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador, even as staffers continue to explore charges of Bolton's abusive behavior and misuse of intelligence. Bolton's supporters in the White House and elsewhere are working to win over key senators and the public.

In 1982, Waldemar Bastos defected from Angola, where a brutal civil war was under way. Two decades later he returned to perform in his native country. His new CD offers hope for the future.

The controversial new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been keeping a low profile in New York. Analysts weigh in on the prospects for Bolton, a ferocious critic of the U.N., to become an effective U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.