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As Israel prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a new independent analysis is raising questions about the Palestinian security services' ability to control the area. The report describes the security services as underarmed, overstaffed and undermined by corruption.

A poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life concludes that 55 percent of Americans have favorable opinions of Muslim-Americans. The survey also finds a decreasing number of Americans who think Islam is a violent religion.

President Bush's nominee for NASA director, Michael Griffin, may revive efforts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope at his confirmation hearing. NASA previously abandoned a plan to use an unmanned robot to repair the telescope, but a new internal review has given high marks to the same proposal.

Frankie Andreu, a nine-time Tour de France participant, is providing commentary on this year's race for the Outdoor Life Network. He looks on as Lance Armstrong sails toward his seventh consecutive Tour victory.

As some of the world's best yo-yo performers stop by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, we take a look at an enduring toy and talk to the curator of the museum's collection.

The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, online and cable news divisions in Kansas are providing a model for how the news media may operate in the future.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is facing more allegations of unethical conduct, detailed in competing front-page stories in this morning's New York Times and Washington Post. DeLay said, "This is just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me."

One of America's greatest novelists, Saul Bellow, died Tuesday at 89. He won three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known books are Herzog, Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March.

Rick Watson was a banker, making good money and providing for his family. But he says he was only doing what needed to be done -- not what he wanted to do. So Watson went to a life coach.

White supremacist Matthew Hale receives a 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge in Chicago. His target, Judge Joan Lefkow, had ruled against him in a trademark dispute.