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Partisan tensions in the House of Representatives appear to have reached a new high. Lawmakers spent hours Tuesday night debating the fallout from a parental-consent bill passed last week. Democrats accused the Republican majority of deliberately misrepresenting amendments offered at a committee voting session on the measure.

The home of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner was rededicated this weekend in Oxford, Miss. Rowan Oak, which underwent a $1.3 million restoration, draws more than 20,000 literary pilgrims each year.

British voters go to the polls Thursday in an election that Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party is expected to win. Voters appear ready to back a third Blair term despite anger at his government's support for the Iraq war.

Campaigning for Thursday's national election in Britain has proven particularly contentious in areas such as East London's Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, where the Iraq war is a key issue.

The House and Senate have been unable to reconcile differences over a supplemental spending bill, largely because of disagreements over a House-sponsored amendment aimed at curbing illegal immigration. The debate within the Republican Party is a prelude to a broader discussion still to come.

Writer Philip Caputo returns to Kent State University, 35 years after he covered the shootings there as a young Chicago Tribune reporter. His new book, Thirteen Seconds, searches for meaning in the violence.

Slate human guinea pig Emily Yoffe goes head-to-head with a world-famous competitive eating champion, as she competes in this year's matzo ball-eating contest in New York City.

Thomas Jefferson High School in south Los Angeles recently has been the scene of three huge brawls, involving hundreds of black and Latino students and police in riot gear. Racial tensions plague the massive urban high school, which is also faces overcrowding and lack of resources.

In Southern Sudan, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army is no longer a rebel group. Under a peace deal signed earlier this year to end Sudan's 22-year civil war, the former rebels will run the south of the country as a semi-autonomous province -- and must make the transition from guerrilla movement to government.

Alex Chadwick talks with filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke and documentarian and former star skateboarder Stacey Peralta about their new film Lords of Dogtown. The movie explores the origins of the skateboarding movement in the Los Angeles beach town of Venice in the 1970s, and the impact of instant fame on the skaters involved -- including Peralta.