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Speaker John Boehner avoided a no-win question when he declined to say whether he would or wouldn't "buck" the Tea Party in response to a question from ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. He also may have given some lawmakers heartburn when he said they shouldn't get paid during the shutdown.

But, adds the widely read Tunisian blogger known as Big Trap Boy, he suspects that many in his country will have trouble knowing "where politics start and where religions ends."

Pharmaceutical companies find ways to market medicines for uses that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Despite stepped up federal enforcement, a doctor who has analyzed the practices says they are unlikely to fade away.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says for too long, states have focused on incarceration at the expense of education. A new report released today by the group, connects incarceration rates with poorly performing schools. Between 1987 and 2007, the report shows that higher education spending grew by 21%, compared with a 127% rise in funding for corrections. Guest host Allison Keyes speaks with NAACP head, Benjamin Jealous.

An inventively animated documentary gets the basics right in its portrait of the late Bill Hicks, a counter-culture comedian who rose to prominence in the '90s — but a full picture of a singular performer will have to wait for another film.

The high court race took a bizarrer turn as the GOP judge went from behind to way ahead.

Hundreds of veterans are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with disabilities that make it hard or impossible to get a job. Many are eligible for disability benefits — but with a wait time of months or years, the veterans risk serious financial trouble.

The ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan may undermine support for nuclear power in the U.S. But it could accelerate the natural gas boom already under way in the Marcellus basin — a 400-million-year-old shale formation stretching from New York to Kentucky.

The State Department's point person on human rights says his office is in a "cat and mouse" game with authoritarian governments that are trying to restrict free speech on the Internet.

Budget negotiations continue on Capitol Hill as a government shutdown looms. Many seem to agree that House and Senate leaders are close on numbers but cannot agree on policy riders.