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Technology is reshaping the railroad industry and helping create one of the most profitable periods it has seen in decades. A visit to Norfolk Southern Railroad shows the technology that keeps 195,000 locomotives running on schedule along more than 21,000 miles of track.

Desperate Networks, a new book exploring the inner workings of the television industry, follows the sagas of top executives at the major networks through a traditional fall season. New York Times reporter Bill Carter describes the highs — the hit show Desperate Housewives, for example — to the lows, which is almost everything else on TV. The Hollywood Reporter television critic Andrew Wallenstein has a review.

Family members of Sept. 11 victims have mixed reactions to the sparing of Zacarias Moussaoui's life. Some were shocked and disappointed but while others felt that killing Moussaoui would mean killing someone who didn't play a major role in the attacks.

Commentator Charles Monroe-Kane became attached to an MTV show featuring what he thought was a real 12-year-old crazy kid. He loved it until he found out the guy was 30 -- and the show was scripted.

A federal court jury in Houston convicts Enron founder Ken Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling of conspiracy and fraud. They will be sentenced on Sept. 11, and face lengthy prison terms. Both men intend to appeal the verdicts.

There were 550 suicide bombings in Iraq last year, and one expert says there is a nearly inexhaustible supply of fervent Jihadists ready for martyrdom in Iraq. U.S. military experts say they're developing a profile of the suicide bomber in Iraq, and that profile is not what you might expect.

Michele Norris talks with Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Chicago sisters who won a James Beard Foundation Award for their Web site, spatulatta.com. At ages 10 and 8, the sisters are the youngest people to win the prestigious award. Their site is geared toward teaching kids how to cook.

Liberal bloggers are assembled en masse in Las Vegas this week for the first-ever convention hosted by the Daily Kos. The new media feels almost old school with keynote addresses by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and panels on poverty, health care and the electoral process.

Commentator Leroy Sievers, a former Nightline producer, says Steven Bochco's new TV drama about the frontlines in Iraq raises an important question: Can a fictional account of war do a more effective job of showing the public the realties of life for soldiers and Iraqi civilians than the news can?

The new Iraqi government is pressing on with the drafting of a new constitution amid renewed insurgent violence. But Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's efforts to include the Sunni minority in the government have met with scorn from Sunni leaders. Iraqis say a recent raid on the offices of one Sunni organization -- for which no one seems willing to take -- hasn't helped the outreach effort.

President Biden's critics accuse his administration of organizing "secret" migrant flights to communities around the country. But those critics get some key facts wrong.

The Southern Baptist Convention offered commitments at its closely watched two-day annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., to address sexual abuse problems kept hidden for years.