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In Colorado, some lawmakers want the companies who are drilling under private properties to compensate the homeowners. Residents bought land and built homes without realizing that they didn't own the mineral rights beneath them. From Aspen Public Radio, Kirk Siegler reports.

A new weight-loss drug is about to be approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-counter sale. Madeleine Brand talks with Dr. Sydney Spiesel, a Connecticut pediatrician and Slate contributor, about the pros and cons of orlistat, currently marketed as the prescription drug Xenical.

While the American press has covered violent protests over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in European papers, most have declined to publish the cartoons.

Microsoft and Yahoo announce a deal that will allow users of one instant messaging service to communicate with the other. While the technology existed to facilitate that inter-communication, it was not offered until now.

Vivian Malone Jones, the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Alabama, has died at age 63. Malone was one of the students Alabama Gov. George Wallace tried to block from entering the university in 1963.

After lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea, lawmakers in Washington -- especially Republicans -- are extremely nervous. NPR's Mara Liasson looks at whether the GOP sees this as a crime of individuals or the wrongdoings seriously affect the fortunes of the entire party.

Virginia did not execute an innocent man in 1992, DNA test results released Thursday show. Gov. Mark Warner had ordered new tests in the case of Roger Keith Coleman, who went to the execution chamber maintaining his innocence. Virginia is the first state to conduct post-execution DNA tests.

The Army publication Military Review has published a provocative essay by a respected British military officer that is highly critical of the U.S. Army's performance in Iraq. The officer writes that the U.S. Army is ill prepared to cope with an insurgency and that its actions actually have fueled the insurgency in Iraq.

A new report concludes that current laws and regulations aren't adequate to guard against potential environmental and health hazards from the tiny new products produced by nanotechnology.

Foreign ministers from Germany, Great Britain and France meet in Berlin and decide to ask the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council. The United Nations could impose sanctions on Iran for reactivating its nuclear program earlier this week.