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The Pentagon's 5 million computers make a tempting target for computer hackers. Officials reported 80,000 attempts to disrupt the system last year. What is being done to improve security?

Although South Africa is making major strides towards democracy and against racism, Youth Radio reporter Fadia Williams says it's still hard for young people there to overcome some of her country's entrenched Apartheid-era attitudes.

Kenya's president reshuffles his Cabinet, angering members of his ruling coalition and plunging the East African economic power into a political crisis. Some want to move up elections scheduled for 2007.

The levees of Southern Louisiana remain under the control of local districts, but Hurricane Katrina revived a call to join them under a central authority. Some question whether surrendering local power would prevent a levee failure in the future.

The state attorney general's office says a San Diego man who spent 21 years in prison is innocent. A jury had convicted Kenneth Marsh for the murder of his girlfriend's young son. A hearing was held

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attends a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, called to discuss the alliance's involvement in Afghanistan. But Rice's trip has been dominated by criticism of America's global counter-terrorism operations.

President Bush is expected to deliver two more speeches on Iraq before his holiday break. The White House is keenly aware that declining support for the war has undercut backing for the president in general -- prompting an aggressive campaign to sell the war.

Another San Diego lawmaker is facing ethics questions just days after Randy Duke Cunningham pleaded guilty to bribery charges. There are now allegations swirling around Democratic Representative B

Attorneys for death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams meet Thursday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. They will argue for clemency for the Crips' co-founder and for commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 13.

Upon arriving Germany Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Without being specific, Rice publicly defended the way the United States is conducting its war on terror. European countries have been investigating claims of secret CIA flights and prisons.