Day to Day

Provincial elections in Iraq are scheduled for this weekend. Tina Sussman of the Los Angeles Times in Baghdad discusses how candidates are working to get elected. ()  

President Barack Obama has now visited the Pentagon for the first time as commander-in-chief. He met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ()  

A California woman gave birth to eight babies Monday. This is only the second time recorded in the U.S. that a woman has given birth to live octuplets. Slate.com's Christopher Beam breaks down the science of the rare event. ()  

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is speaking Thursday at his impeachment trial in Springfield. Blagojevich has not participated in the trial at all until now. ()  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its annual report about sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. The big news is that Chlamydia infections are up. Medical contributor Dr. Sydney Spiesel discusses what the findings mean for peoples' sex lives. ()  

A Southern California man murdered his wife and five children this week after he was fired from his job. This is just the latest in a string of family murder suicides in the Los Angeles area. Don't blame the economy, says Dr. Louis Schlesinger, professor of forensic psychology ()  

There are anniversaries we don't so much observe as dread. The events connected to them are something we'd prefer to forget, days we still cannot accept or fully understand. In this archived story, we chronicle the 30th anniversary of the mass shooting of children at a school yard in San Diego. ()  

New reports show alarming rates of default in so-called jumbo home loans. Greg McBride of Bankrate.com says this could spell a new round of trouble for the nation's already ailing banks. ()