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HBO has a reputation for original, true-to-life series, but on Sunday it will premiere a show that is more epic fantasy than anything else the network has been doing. It's called Game of Thrones and it's been likened to The Sopranos, if it were set in Middle Earth.

President Obama's Midwest bus trip is part listening tour to show that he's concerned about the problems of actual Americans, part rolling photo op that gives him a chance to make the case for compromise (and to blame congressional Republicans for not doing enough on that score.)But it also was a chance to try and score a few points on the would-be Republican nominees.

When Gov. Rick Perry announces his candidacy on Saturday, there will be a new sheriff in the GOP presidential contest — a man who, in more than two decades of electoral politics, has never lost a race. Perry was born and raised in West Texas, where he picked up survival skills that could come in handy.

Little information is coming out of Syria, but stories from Daraa, where the protests began, have emerged as Syrians cross the border into Jordan. One Jordanian shop has become a sort of word-of-mouth news bureau, where Syrians discuss the loss of loved ones and encounters with soldiers.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium before the U.N. General Assembly and laid out his vision for a new world order free of the "hegemony of arrogance." The U.S. delegation boycotted the speech, a day after President Obama addressed world leaders from the same stage.

A bad harvest and fires in Russia have pushed wheat prices in this country higher. While that's good news for farmers, it's bad news for food producers. Bakeries and other businesses are facing higher costs -- costs they may not be able to pass on to consumers.

Oak Borer Could Wipe Out Trees From San Diego To Oregon

Workers once tore up a Phoenix parking lot and found nearly 200 ancient human burial sites under it, evidence of civilizations in centuries past. Commentator Craig Childs explores those worlds by trying to map the ancient world beneath the modern one.

Gretchen Peters, author of Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda,, argues that going after the poppy problem in Afghanistan has to be a fundamental part of the war effort. And that for a strategy to succeed, she says, it has to be broad in scope.

There’s some positive news on the water front. State officials say they’ll be able to deliver about 50 percent of the water requested by California farmers and agencies this year. The initial allocation in December was only five-percent.