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Robert Siegel talks with Reza Aslan, author of No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Aslan talks about the significance of the fatwa against terrorist attacks on civilians by the Fiqh Council of North America. He explains what a fatwa is, and who can issue one.

Police raid a home in Birmingham and arrest a man suspected of carrying out the July 21 bombings in London. Officers used a stun gun to subdue the man. They also arrested three other men in a separate pre-dawn raid at another home about two miles away.

In January, 1st Sgt. John Campbell and his wife Paula were preparing for his deployment to Iraq -- and for the arrival of twins. A month ago, while John was in Bagdhad, daughters Taryn and Taylor were born. John recently returned for an all-too brief visit with his new family.

The former head of WorldCom takes the witness stand again Tuesday at his trial on charges of accounting fraud. Bernard Ebbers insisted Monday that he was unaware of the massive fraudulent accounting that took place at the company between 2000 and 2002.

A tenuous peace holds in Sadr City between U.S. forces and followers of militant anti-American cleric Moktada Sadr. Shiite militiamen who were shooting at U.S. soldiers last summer are now helping man Iraqi police checkpoints and assisting in reconstruction.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with President Bush at the White House in a bid to bolster relations with the United States and advance the peace process with Israel. Abbas came away from the meeting with a U.S. pledge of $50 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority.

Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series, has issued a forceful response to criticisms of the decision to hire a person of color, Leah Jeffries, to play Annabeth Chase on TV.

Robert Siegel talks with Vijay Vaitheswareen of the Economist about President Bush's new energy policy proposals. Vaitheswareen says much of what was laid out reiterates Bush's 2001 energy plan.

In the second installment of a weeklong series on the end of the Vietnam War, Michael Sullivan looks at Hanoi, once the capital of North Vietnam and now the capital of a nation reunified under communist rule.

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Edward Jay Epstein about how movie studios build franchises. Epstein says that studios sometimes take enormous risks to build a successful movie franchises, like the Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings, but the rewards for success can be enormous. He also details the "Midas formula" for reaping huge profits through licensing and merchandising.