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On Friday, Regis Philbin stepped down from his hosting duties on the talk show Live with Regis and Kelly. He talks about his next step. Also, filmmaker Alexander Payne talks about several of his recent movies and musician Joe Henry reflects on his latest album Reverie.

At the ATF fire lab in Maryland, setting houses on fire is all in a day's work. As researchers learn more about how fires start, they're shattering assumptions and shedding new light on old cases.

The Department of Justice plans to tighten current laws regarding websites' terms of service conditions. That means if you press that "Agree" button on websites, you better mean it. Some say broadening the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could even make using a pseudonym on social media outlets a felony. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host host Laura Sullivan talks with Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School, about how the government can strengthen the Internet's defenses against cyber warfare while keeping the law reasonable.

President Obama wrapped up a nine-day trip to Asia today, during which he announced a troop build up in Australia and a rare State Department visit to the isolationist country of Myanmar formerly known as Burma. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host host Laura Sullivan speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, about the trip — as well as other stories from the past week.

In New York City, nearly 4,000 young people are homeless every night — and a good number of them identify as gay, bisexual or transgender. But there are only 250 beds for them, which angers some advocates.

The U.S.-Mexico border region could be the key to rejuvenating manufacturing in North America. Business are betting that quick delivery times and agile, streamlined companies will have a competitive advantage over Asian firms.

Six of the presidential candidates gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday for a roundtable discussion. The event, sponsored by the state's leading conservative Christian political force, did not touch on the economy, and at times had an emotional and confessional tone.

A chance for a Rhodes Scholarship, or the chance to battle your arch-rival football team? Yale quarterback Patrick Witt faced this agonizing choice; Audie Cornish has more.

A night of intense clashes between protesters and police in Cairo has left hundreds injured and two dead. This comes just eight days before Egypt's first parliamentary election since former President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February. Merrit Kennedy in Cairo reports that protesters are angry about the way the ruling military council has handled the transition period.

In today's tough economy many people are doing whatever they can to make it through one more mortgage payment or survive other financial hardships that have reached their doorstep. Desperate times often call for desperate measures, and for some retirees that means selling their pensions for a lump sum payment.