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The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Sen. Barack Obama gives his economic policy speech on the heels of Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain. How does his plan compare?

Zimbabwe's state newspaper predicts that there will be a runoff in last weekend's presidential vote. It could be the first time in 28 years that the country's autocratic leader has failed to win re-election. The Election Commission has yet to announce the outcome of the presidential vote.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigns amid a criminal investigation following allegations of favoritism in HUD projects.

It's been a rough week for airlines — and for travelers. American Airlines grounded thousands of flights and Frontier became the fourth airline in two months to declare bankruptcy. Aviation expert George Hobica talks to Andrea Seabrook about what passengers can do to protect themselves.

President Bush is scheduled to announce Thursday that the length of tours for troops serving at war will be shortened from 15 months to 12 months.

German researcher Gerhard Ertl has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Ertl developed new methods for studying the "surface chemistry" that is critical to everything from catalytic converters for cleaning up auto exhaust, to the chemical reactions that created the hole in the ozone layer.

Finalists for the National Book Awards were announced Wednesday in Philadelphia. Some well-known authors, such as Christopher Hitchens and Edwidge Danticat, are nominated. But the list also includes several debut authors. Winners will be named in mid-November in New York City.

In Duluth, Minn., on Thursday, a federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas for copyright infringement for sharing music online. Thomas is to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs involved in the case. Eric Bangeman, who has been covering the trial for the tech Web site Ars Technica, talks with Michele Norris about what the case will mean for future litigation involving file sharing.

When the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a measure that would officially declare the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the early 19th century genocide, it revived a political debate.