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The Senate debates a revised financial bailout bill that includes sweeteners to attract votes when it moves to the House. The core remains the same: The government gets $700 billion, incrementally, to buy the troubled assets of financial companies.

The government released figures Monday showing that a record number of Americans faced food insecurity in 2008. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said 49 million people lack the access to food that they need.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee rejected a provision to include a government-run public insurance option as part of the effort to overhaul the health care system. The vote was 15-to-8 against the measure.

The House is expected to pass a bill that would eliminate a board that is charged with reining in Medicare spending. But Democrats generally oppose the change, and President Obama has promised to veto the legislation if it ever gets that far.

Former Sen. Tom Daschle was in the hot seat for days because of news he had recently paid more than $100,000 in back taxes. Not a single senator came out against his nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services when he withdrew his name.

President Obama embarked on his first foreign tour as head of state today, traveling north of the border to visit Canada. Talks with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper focused on the economy, trade, energy and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama chose to head north for his first foreign trip as president. He met with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa on Thursday. Obama said he doesn't believe a controversial "buy America" clause in his stimulus package will significantly discriminate against Canadian industry.

Black farmers make up a small, aging part of the farming population. Some worry traditions may die with them. So there's an effort in Mississippi to cultivate the next generation of Black farmers.

Is it possible for other people to love us the way we love ourselves? Downtempo R&B singer Alina Baraz raises this question in her new song, "Keep Me In Love."

The Obama Foundation named Tod Williams and Billie Tsien as the architects of the presidential museum and library. Scott Simon talks to Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin.