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Republicans promise that the full Senate will vote on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court by early August. Jeff Sessions, the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, has abandoned calls for a delay in the vote until September.

Work continues on Capitol Hill to overhaul the nation's health care system. A Senate committee on Wednesday became the first panel to complete work on a health bill. Meanwhile, three House committees launch their formal drafting sessions Thursday.

President Obama has said health care will top his agenda for the next several weeks in hopes of getting a bill through each house of Congress by the august recess. Although he praised lawmakers Wednesday for moving forward on health care overhaul, there is still a long way to go.

For mystery writer Randy Wayne White, Florida isn't all beaches and amusement parks — it's a landscape only known to those who have spent time with it, and a place where sinister crimes begin and end.

President Obama has tapped a rural family physician to be the nation's top doctor. At a Rose Garden ceremony Monday, Obama nominated Alabama doctor Regina Benjamin to be the U.S. surgeon general. Benjamin runs a nonprofit health clinic on the Gulf Coast.

California schools were once in the top 10 nationally. Now as scores fail, so does the economy, further compromising the school systems. One institution hopes that becoming a charter school may help brighten its future.

California's Central Valley produces many of the fruits and vegetables consumed by Americans — but not by the residents themselves.

To help with your food budget, the host of PBS' America's Test Kitchen suggests eating like Americans did in the 1800s. It's cheaper and tastes delicious.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko's name can be found on bridges, roads and statues all over the country, but very few people know why. Guy Raz talks to author Alex Storozynski, who has written a new book about the relatively unknown Revolutionary War hero. Kosciuszko's engineering know-how helped win the Battle of Saratoga.

President Obama said Thursday he is "deeply concerned" about unemployment. The remarks to The Associated Press came after the Labor Department said U.S. businesses shed 467,000 jobs in June and that the unemployment rate increased to 9.5 percent.