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The Senate confirms Priscilla Owen to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 55-43, ending a four-year struggle. A compromise worked out by a bipartisan group of 14 senators resulted in a process by which at least three Bush court nominees will receive an up or down vote, starting with Owen.

An estimated 2 million Americans practice some form of self-injury, and there is a common misperception that -- like anorexia -- the problem afflicts mostly young women. But self-mutilation isn't exclusively a modern adolescent issue. The disorder is an ancient one, and it is best understood as an attempt to relieve rather than inflict pain.

George Washington University Professor Orin Kerr is helping to rewrite part of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. He is trying to balance the privacy concerns of Internet service users with the terrorism concerns of law enforcement.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for a special election so voters can consider his far-reaching proposals on reshaping the state's government. The move bypasses the legislature. John Myers of member station KQED reports.

eBay, the pioneer of Internet profitability, is about to turn 10. In a decade, the online seller has become an integral part of online culture and the Internet economy.

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.

On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcom X was assassinated at the Audubon ballroom in Harlem. On what would have been his 80th birthday, Allison Keyes reports on a new exhibit on the civil rights leader and the opening of the Malcom X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center on the site of the Audubon.

Michele Norris talks with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah about the fight over President Bush's judicial nominees. Sen. Hatch is hopeful that a showdown over these nominees can be averted. But he maintains that any compromise must allow each nomination to be put before the full Senate.

Tom Bullock reports on how U.S. troops in Iraq try to locate and disarm IEDs before they explode.

Some 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a survey of Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and San Francisco in the past year, 46 percent of the black men surveyed at local bars and dance clubs were HIV positive.