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Erik Prince, the founder and chairman of private security firm Blackwater USA, is due to testify before Congress. He will respond to a report describing the company as irresponsible and trigger-happy.

Much of the reporting coming out of Myanmar is accomplished by people who risk their lives to send information to Burmese pro-democracy advocates in exile. Aye Chan Naing, executive director of the Democratic Voice of Burma, talks about the dangers of reporting from the country formerly known as Burma.

A federal jury recently found that New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a former team executive. Anucha Browne Sanders accused Thomas of sexual harassment and said the team's owner, Madison Square Garden, fired her for complaining. Georgetown law professor Emma Coleman Jordan discusses the impact of the case.

Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig said Thursday that he intends to keep his seat until his term ends 15 months from now. A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct stemming from his arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

North Korea agreed to provide an accurate declaration of its nuclear programs and will disable its facilities at its main reactor complex by year-end. As part of the agreement, the U.S. will take the lead in seeing that the facilities are disabled and will fund those initial activities.

North and South Korea make a historic pledge to move toward a formal peace treaty to replace a cease-fire that has been in place since 1953, when the two sides halted hostilities in a bitter three-year conflict.

Workers at Chrysler auto plants were walking off the job after a late-morning strike deadline passed. The United Auto Workers union has not officially announced a strike, but workers were starting to take strike assignments and picket signs.

Throughout her career, Mosley has often been one of the few Black journalists in the newsroom. She recently reported first-hand on the use of psilocybin to heal racial trauma.

The United Auto Workers union reached an agreement with Chrysler on a new labor contract after a brief walkout by assembly-line workers Wednesday. The union will now try to reach a new agreement with Ford.

A U.S. federal judge is preventing the Pentagon from sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee to Tunisia because of allegations he would face torture there.