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Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks — and were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they used.

Peter Manseau skillfully weaves together spirituality, technology and the legacy of the Civil War to tell the story of a "spirit photographer" on trial for claiming he could take pictures of ghosts.

The verdict of life in prison for confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui comes more than four years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Robert Siegel talks with Jamie S. Gorelick, former member of the 9/11 Commission. Gorelick says that Moussaoui's testimony -- that he was meant to fly a fifth plane into the White House with Richard Reid -- does not match up with the evidence she reviewed.

President Bush visits New Orleans on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the city and the Gulf Coast. He toured parts of the city and met with local leaders. "We have got to give assurance to the citizens," Bush said, "that if there is another natural disaster, we will respond in better fashion."

President-elect Barack Obama formally tapped New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be his commerce secretary. Richardson is the highest-ranking Hispanic so far in Obama's administration, something Hispanic leaders are watching closely.

President Obama was in Germany Friday where he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, before visiting the site of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp. Later, Obama met with injured American soldiers evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan at a U.S. military hospital in western Germany.

Rescuers at work for a week since six miners were trapped in a coal mine collapse in Utah still don't know the location or condition of the men. That is challenging the sense of hope in Huntington, Utah. They are set to drill a third hole into the mine.

Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric Maskin of Princeton and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago share the prize. They were honored for laying the foundation of mechanism design theory.

Former U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois has died at the age of 83. The Republican is best remembered as an anti-abortion crusader and the leader of the House impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, but he was more politically complex than the conservative caricature would suggest.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal's bleak assessment of the Afghan war has reopened debate in the Obama administration on the way forward. President Obama has indicated he's rethinking the counterinsurgency approach he put in play back in March. So what are his options at this point?