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ABC World News anchor Charlie Gibson is retiring at the end of the year. Diane Sawyer will replace him. That means women will anchor two of the three major network evening newscasts. Bill Carter of The New York Times talks with Renee Montagne about the changes at ABC.

President Obama is pushing hard for a consensus on health care legislation before Congress adjourns for the summer. That goal, however, has already hit a snag — a report issued Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office that says none of the health reform proposals floated so far will achieve his goal of curbing the skyrocketing rate of health care costs.

The death of legendary CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite on Friday sent us scurrying for the archives — and we found a series of reports that he and producer John McDonough did for All Things Considered. We hear part of one of them — Cronkite remembering the first live satellite broadcast to Europe.

In Afghanistan today, the American chairman of the commission investigating complaints about Thursday's presidential election says some of the charges his team is reviewing are serious enough to sway the final election result.

President Obama called the conflict in Afghanistan "a war of necessity." Speaking Monday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, Obama also lashed out at wasteful Pentagon spending and pledged to veto any pork-laden defense bills.

The New York Times reported Friday that the CIA hired private contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill senior al-Qaida members. Mark Mazzetti, national security Correspondent for the newspaper, says contractors for the company protect and help operate a base in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan.

The Obama family is taking a summer break. They're scheduled to arrive today on Martha's Vineyard, where they'll spend a week in the sun and out of the spotlight. Or at least they'll try to. Host Liane Hansen talks to Mike Seccombe, senior writer for the Vineyard Gazette about what residents have been doing to prepare.

President Obama will tour several Western locales this weekend, including the western slope city of Grand Junction, Colo. The city is the site of an innovative program for controlling health care costs that the president wants to highlight.

President Obama announced that he is nominating Ben Bernanke to another four-year term as head of the Federal Reserve. The president said Bernanke shepherded the U.S. through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

It's taking off around the country: Treatment at home for patients sick enough to be in a hospital, but stable enough to be home. Are family caregivers ready for all the responsibility?