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Los Angeles is facing some of the most severe water restrictions the city has ever seen. Will lawns survive? Some suggest the city should eliminate this elitist status symbol all together.

Ukraine's president addressed a joint meeting of Congress Wednesday morning. He appeared virtually and referenced Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks in his speech.

Despite Congress being on a weeklong Memorial Day recess, House lawmakers have returned to Washington for a hearing on the FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office. The search for documents provoked a standoff involving the White House, the Justice Department and House leaders over the reach of executive-branch powers.

Desperate Networks, a new book exploring the inner workings of the television industry, follows the sagas of top executives at the major networks through a traditional fall season. New York Times reporter Bill Carter describes the highs — the hit show Desperate Housewives, for example — to the lows, which is almost everything else on TV. The Hollywood Reporter television critic Andrew Wallenstein has a review.

Steve Inskeep talks to Kevin Gover, a former assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, about Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea to two sets of felony charges. Abramoff received millions of dollars from tribes to represent their casino interests.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to announce recommendations for U.S. military base closings. This round is expected to slash up to 10 percent of capacity, down from earlier estimates of 20 to 25 percent. Plans to house U.S. troops returning from overseas affected the numbers.

Fifth-term Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania harkens back to another era in the Senate, when both parties had members who felt most at home in the political center. Specter's seniority has made him chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, putting him in the middle of the fight over the federal judiciary.

Senate Democrats tried, and failed, to advance legislation to establish a federal law to protect abortion access nationwide.

Democrats won two hard-fought governorships of Virginia and New Jersey in Tuesday's off-year elections. In California, voters rejected eight ballot measures, including propositions backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But there was a key victory for the GOP -- New Yorkers re-elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Madeleine Brand discusses the results of the vote with Slate political correspondent John Dickerson.

President Bush chooses Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bernanke is thought to be more than qualified on his intellectual merits. In terms of his role as a political player, analysts agree he has some big shoes to fill.