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Alex Chadwick talks to Rep. John Murtha, (D-PA), about his charge that the Pentagon tried to cover up the killing of unarmed civilians by Marines in Haditha, Iraq. Murtha, a former Marine and longtime supporter of the military as a legislator, has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's occupation of Iraq.

Five U.S. Navy ships head to Lebanon to evacuate Americans, while more than 100,000 Lebanese have already fled to Syria. In Israel, Hezbollah rocket attacks have shut down the country's largest port, and at the United Nations, calls mount for a larger peacekeeping force in the region.

Israeli warplanes pound a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut, killing two-dozen people, in the seventh day of Israeli air attacks. More than 200 Lebanese have been killed in the bombing campaign. The bombing is a response to Hezbollah missile attacks on Israel from Lebanon, and the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers.

American Floyd Landis has reclaimed the leader's yellow jersey in the Tour de France. He reclaimed it after the 15th stage of the race, which included three Alpine peaks. Sports journalist James Raia talks with John Ydstie about the race.

Iraq's prime minister says he's losing patience with what he called American "excuses" for killing Iraqi civilians. Nouri al-Maliki told the Reuters news agency that he plans to launch an Iraqi investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha last fall.

In the midst of a heat wave blanketing the United States, temperatures are also rising throughout Europe. The French are struggling to find new ways to keep cool in a nation where air conditioning is not common. Eleanor Beardsley, reporting from Paris, talks with Alex Chadwick.

Tony Hawk has turned what many consider a childhood activity into a professional career. For Hawk, skateboarding is not only a job, it's a means of expression and a foundation for personal belief.

It's the ninth day of heavy fighting in Southern Lebanon. Israeli jets bombard the region, while special forces battle with Hezbollah troops on the ground. What is Israel's military strategy? To find out, Robert Siegel talks with Michael Harris, a professor of political science at Ferris State University.

Quarterly earnings reports help to drive the markets, as momentum swings with how companies have fared against expectations. But at least one market expert says that pressure on CEOs to meet their own forecasts can run afoul of good corporate governance -- and end up hurting shareholders.

The Senate debates the first major abortion bill of this Congress. The measure would make it a crime to take a minor to another state in order to avoid parental notification for an abortion.