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The Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony Wednesday on a bill that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act and, for the first time, give federal benefits to same-sex couples who marry. Even in states where gay marriage is legal, federal benefits are denied.

Airs Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Thousands rallied Sunday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to demand international intervention in the Darfur region of Sudan. The deadly conflict there is fueled by religious friction and has created millions of refugees.

The battle over homosexuality has torn apart Christian churches in the U.S. American ministers helped bring the same debate to Uganda, and now the country is facing the potentially deadly consequences.

Airs Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

U.S. intelligence agencies are paying close attention to North Korea. That country announced this week that it is preparing to launch a communications satellite. But the satellite would be placed atop a long-range rocket of the same type that could be used to carry a nuclear warhead.

Almost 70 percent of all U.S. food aid goes to Africa, shipped on American-flagged vessels like the Maersk-Alabama, which was captured earlier this month by Somali pirates. Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S Agency for International Development, the current distribution system of food aid is expensive, slow and vulnerable to pirates.

Court finds Judge Vaughn Walker did not have to divulge whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he declared last year that voter-approved Proposition 8 was unconstitutional.

President Bush meets with the new leaders of the Senate, Democrats Harry Reid of Nevada and Richard Durbin of Illinois, who benefited from their party's strong showing in Senate races this week. The new Senate and House mean President Bush will need new strategies for his final two years in office.

Both the Bush Administration and Congress speak about the need to reform the United Nations. But for the most part, they've called for changes in U.N. management. But they have said little about a plan recently released by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that calls for an expanded the Security Council.