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A new bill would create private companies to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But the government would continue to guarantee mortgages.

It's graduation time and commentator Ursula Goodenough shares part of a speech she gave to students at the University of Southern California. Her advice? Embrace the concepts of courage, community and play!

Fireballs seemed to be flying over the city as lightning hit electric lines.

Wounded soldiers often spend months in physical therapy rebuilding their strength; soldiers with traumatic brain injuries face an equally grueling challenge. Computerized mental exercises may be exhausting, but doctors and patients hope they will improve focus and memory.

Robert Siegel talks with electrical engineering and computer science professor Ruzena Bajcsy about one of the inventors of the C.C.D. — the charged coupling device. Scientist Willard Boyle's creation is found in bar code scanners, digital photography, medical endoscopes and the Hubble Space Telescope. Boyle, who won a Nobel Prize for his invention, recently died at age 86.

The stated reason for the hearing was so Senate Democrats could explore with energy executives why their industry, with its huge profits from higher gas prices, should still benefit from $21 billion annually in tax breaks. But it was also about political posturing by all sides.

This week's arts podcast includes a talk with country star Shania Twain, a look at the art that's bubbling up in Libya, a few time-crunched books ripped from the headlines, and new cultural happenings in New York and Los Angeles.

Dieter Schlesak's "documentary novel," translated from German, puts Auschwitz's pharmacist on trial. The book employs interviews with concentration camp survivors, letters and camp records, and testimony and evidence from the druggist's actual trial, which took place in the 1960s.

Systematic thinking errors are deeply embedded in all of us. Our brains are wired to prevent us from understanding the world as it is.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the midst of a 90-day review to see whether U.S. reactors are vulnerable to catastrophic failure based on what has been learned from Japan. At a hearing Thursday, an official said the agency had not identified any major issues; however, the wisdom of voluntary guidelines for severe accidents was questioned.