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Vice President Dick Cheney already was facing declining popularity when he accidentally shot his hunting buddy. Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Cheney would have fared better had he gone public immediately after the shooting rather than spending four days figuring out how to handle it.

Vice President Dick Cheney gave his first interview since shooting his friend while hunting. Cheney said the shooting was his fault but that it was best to delay informing the public until all the facts were known.

British singer/songwriter Richard Thompson has a new box set of live performances, outtakes, and previously unreleased material. The 5-disc set, The Life and Music of Richard Thompson, was built from the musician's own archives as well as the archives of Thompson fans.

A new tactic has emerged in the angry debate over cartoons depicting religious figures, as an Israeli artist launches a contest for the best anti-Semitic cartoon -- drawn by a Jew. Amitai Sandy says the Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest is a response to an Iranian newspaper's competition for cartoons on the Holocaust.

House Republican investigators release a harsh report listing hundreds of mistakes and misjudgments in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. The report, called "A Failure of Initiative," follows a five-month inquiry, and places blame at all levels of government.

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.

Renee Montagne talks to Senior Correspondent Juan Williams about the heated exchanges between the White House press corps and White House spokesman Scott McClellan about the timing of the release of information on Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

Steve Inskeep talks to Bennett Haselton, an American software developer who has figured out a way for computer users in China to get around the Chinese government's Internet firewall.

Authorities have suspended vote-counting one week after Haiti's presidential election. Front-runner Rene Preval claimed that massive fraud was preventing him from winning in the first round. Thousands of Preval's supporters held a demonstration Tuesday night after burned ballots were found smoldering on a dump.

Military police in Britain arrest a man after a U.K. newspaper publishes images allegedly showing British troops beating and kicking Iraqi youths. Officials refuse to reveal where the arrest was made or confirm whether the arrested man was a serving soldier.