2010 August | Here & Now

Communities and parents are organizing to make the bike ride to school safe.

U.S. Marks The Formal End Of Combat Operations In Iraq, Kurdistan After The War, What’s Next For Iraq?,Getting Kids Back On Their Bikes, Unraveling The Mystery Between The Saudi Prince, Fox News And The So-Called ‘Ground Zero Mosque’, Romeo And Juliet in Yiddish

President Obama’s Busy Week, Can A Vaccine Treat An Addiction?, Hurricane Earl Could Become Major Hurricane, Joyce Maynard Talks About Parenting And Her Novel “Labor Day”

Federal Tool Bag Looks Sparse As The Economy Falters, The Tillman Story, Grappling With Europe’s Gypsy Problem, A Car For Blind Drivers Could Become A Reality, Harry Shearer’s ‘Big Uneasy’ Asks: How Safe Is New Orleans Today?, Monica Tries the Hurricane Simulator

Tea Partiers To Meet In Washington This Weekend, Young Workers Face Brighter Future In China Than In The U.S., Schools Offer Students A Chance To Skip Senior Year, Candidates Copy Fashion But May Lack Flair Of Sen. Scott Brown, The Bluegrass Band ‘Cherryholmes’ Keeps It All In the Family

Primary Wrap Up: McCain Wins, Ballot Counting In Alaska, New Orleans Five Years After Katrina, Chileans Hold Out Hope For Miners, The End of Overeating?, Throw Out Your Clocks

In his new book, “Turn & Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart,” Howard Mansfield makes the radical suggestion that we should throw out our clocks. Read an excerpt of it here.

Judge’s Ruling Halts Federally-funded Stem Cell Research, Proposed NYC Islamic Center Raises Questions Over Whether America Is Islamophobic, Lottery Helps Higher Education Hit The Jackpot, Massive Egg Recall Likely To Continue, Handel & Hendrix & Lloyd Miller’s Musical Journey

Oil Spill Fund Recipients Must Give Up Right To Sue, American Aid Worker Goes ‘Barefoot In Baghdad’, Florida Primaries Tomorrow: It’s About Character, The Televangelist And The Warlord, Sharing Our Tacky Tourist Photos

Read an excerpt from Manal Omar’s gripping memoir about the complicated lives of women in Iraq, “Barefoot In Baghdad.”

New Report Shows Record Number Of ‘Hardship Withdrawals’ From 401(k)s, Oil Still Lurks Beneath The Surface In The Gulf, Scientists Test Seafood Safety, Teen Computer Programmer Creates Twitter App That Goes Viral, Bobby Thomson Remembered, Obama Administration Considers Government Role In Housing Finance, Matisyahu Balances Pop Music And Orthodox Judaism

American Troops Withdraw From Iraq, But It Isn’t Over Yet, Amputee War Vets Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, How The Islamic Center In N.Y. Ignited A Political Firestorm, Flood Waters Continue To Ravage Pakistan, Henry Winkler Is Still Having Fun On TV

There are two kinds of travelers in the world: Those who take themselves way too seriously and those who don’t. Check out some of tackiest tourist photos around and then share your photos with us on our Facebook page.

The President Hits The Road As Americans Give Him Bad Marks On The Economy, Az. Immigration Law Hurts Tourism But Could Help Private Prisons, US Leads The World In Rate Of Incarceration, Prosecutors Plan For New Blagojevich Trial, Tribal Lands Are Being Reborn

View photos of tribal lands that are being restored as part of a growing Native American environmental movement.

‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Takes Campaign Center Stage, Are All Soldiers Heroes?, Kosovo Edges Forward As An Independent State, Letters, Travie McCoy Breaks Big With ‘Billionaire’

Shrimpers Return to Louisiana Waters, Earn College Credits By Working At Walmart?, Authorities Probe Apparent Suicide of ‘Craigslist Killer’, Energy Efficiency Can Save Money And Lives In The Military, Cinema Jenin

Children Fly Without IDs and Buy Tickets With Cash, Professor Gets On A Plane And Into Conversations About Race, Flood Waters Continue To Rise In Pakistan, Some of the Nation’s Wealthy Say ‘Tax Me More’, Hitchcock’s Psycho Still Scares At 50

Voter Mood Goes From Bad to Worse, A Closer Look at Drowning, Possible Wikileak Connection To MIT, A School of Rock 2010

Lifeguarding consultant Francesco Pia gives us some tips on how to make your pool safe after a recent spate of high-profile drownings this summer.