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Madeleine Brand talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about Wednesday's U.S. Senate hearings on oil prices. Lawmakers are looking into whether five major oil companies are taking advantage of consumers by inflating gas prices and reaping huge profits.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, barraged by criticism for the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, will no longer lead the relief effort on Gulf Coast and instead will work on "big picture" issues in Washington, D.C.

Editorial Writer Rox Laird argues that contrary to popular belief, the Supreme Court's ruling on eminent domain was a conservative not radical one. His op-ed appears in The Des Moines Register.

If Vice President Cheney is an aggressive, loyal defender of President Bush, then David Addington is an aggressive loyal defender of Cheney.

Harvard University psychologist Susan Clancy is the author of the new book Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. She speaks with host Madeleine Brand her years of research and conversations with people who believe themselves victims of alien abduction.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announces that Mike Brown, the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being relieved from daily direction of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

The Supreme Court agrees to consider a challenge to the military tribunals the Bush administration has used to try suspected terrorists. One of the detainees includes a man captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of being the driver for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Voters picked Democrats for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, while incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick made a come-from-behind re-election victory in the Detroit mayor's race. Read a roundup of results from key races in Tuesday's state and local elections.

The modern Bible is the product of translations and interpretations that span centuries. But a true understanding of its meaning should take into account its origins in Jewish culture, according to biblical scholar Marc Zvi Brettler, author of How to Read the Bible.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, known for work in post-apartheid South Africa, talks with Debbie Elliott about getting people to look at the world in a different way... throwing away old categories and old concepts and starting fresh.