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The new book by The Kitchen Sisters charts their ongoing series of reports exploring the world of street-corner cooking, colorful kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating traditions.

Criminal charges against former White House aide I. Lewis Libby have focused new attention on the man he worked for. Vice President Dick Cheney's support for the Iraq war and his ideas about the treatment of detainees have drawn criticism.

Congress is expected to respond promptly to President Bush's request for an additional $52 billion in aid for Hurricane Katrina victims. While Democrats and Republicans agree on the need for more money, they continue to argue over responsibility for the slow federal response to the disaster.

The 34-nation Summit of the Americas concludes in Mar del Plata, Argentina, with little apparent progress on a free-trade area promoted by President Bush. The meeting was overshadowed by violent anti-Bush protests.

The grandfather and uncle of the child who was killed last fall during an exorcism at a Northern California church were arrested this week in connection with her death, police said.

The number of children living with their grandparents has increased dramatically. Since 1990, the number has climbed 30 percent. These kinship families are especially common in communities of color, where 13 percent of African American kids depend on their grandparents for care.

Demonstrations against the war in Iraq were held in many cities around the nation and the world Saturday. One of the largest was in Washington, D.C., where tens of thousands of people turned out.

For many music listeners, a band's identity is inextricably tied to the lead singer. But the founding brothers of the British group Morcheeba decided to buck that conventional wisdom by parting ways with one singer and creating a new sound with someone else.

Across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, people in the town of Slidell, La., are struggling to deal with their own version of Katrina's devastation.

Hurricane Wilma has grown rapidly grew from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds to a Category Five hurricane, the most rapidly strengthening hurricane recorded. It's expected to weaken before possibly making landfall on Florida's west coast over the weekend. Christopher Landsay at the National Hurricane Center in Miami discusses Wilma.