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President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

On trial for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys, Saddam Hussein was defiant and boisterous under cross-examination Tuesday. Melissa Block talks with Edward Wong of the New York Times.

President Bush is in Cancun, meeting with leaders from Canada and Mexico to discuss trade, security and immigration issues. Mexican President Vicente Fox is pushing for the legalization of illegal immigrants in the U.S.

There have always been films that the studios have chosen not to screen for critics; the reason usually being that studios feared they had a dud on their hands and wanted to avoid bad reviews on opening g weekend. But in the past few weeks we've had more than the usual amount on no-can-see pictures.

In a videoconference with U.S. troops in Tikrit, President Bush renews his vow to stay in Iraq as long as it takes for democracy take root there. The White House also continued its defense of Harriet Miers as the president's choice to serve on the Supreme Court.

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) has resigned from the House after pleading guilty to tax evasion and bribery conspiracy. Cunningham admitted he took than $2 million in exchange for favors to defense contracting companies.

Lin, who along with two of the film's stars stopped by KPBS after hosting the San Diego premiere of his film at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, noted that Bruce Lee was a huge part of his identity as a kid growing up in Orange County. But the irony was that "my first introduction to Bruce Lee wasnt even Bruce Lee -- it was Bruce Li and Bruce Loo because when I was growing up, they had this thing called Kung Fu Theater, and they booked the cheap films, not the real Bruce Lee films. So I saw all these imitators first. It was with the advent of the VCR that I finally saw Bruce Lee in

Farai Chiedya talks with NPR special Africa correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault about the growing scope of AIDS in Africa, and obstacles to efforts to slow the spread of HIV on the continent.

Does Character Count Anymore?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this week to talk to America's Arab allies about how to deal with the Hamas-led Palestinian government and the situation in Iraq.