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Firefighters are battling a wildfire in the heart of Los Angeles. The blaze began Tuesday in Griffith Park and has already destroyed hundreds of acres in the hills above Hollywood.

Six foreign-born Muslims have been arrested for plotting an attack on the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. Investigators say the men planned to "kill as many soldiers as possible." An employee of a video-transfer business alerted authorities after the men wanted a suspicious tape converted to DVD.

In 2003, she saw her marriage to Tour de France cycling champ Lance Armstrong end in divorce. Kristin Armstrong's devotional walks others through her path to healing. She talks about her journey and her faith in this week's Faith Matters.

French citizens go to the polls Sunday to elect their next president. The contrasting political platforms of the two candidates suggest a divided France. Socialist Segolene Royal and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won last month's first round of voting.

President Bush addressed a convocation of students, faculty and families at Virginia Tech today, as thousands of people gathered to mourn the killings of 32 people by a gunman Monday. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed himself just as police were arriving on the scene.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger and the university's police chief say that the first shooting on Monday was initially treated as an isolated incident — and that authorities suspected the gunman had left the campus. But a second, far more deadly shooting left more than two dozen people dead.

FBI investigators are making slow progress in building a profile of Seung-hui Cho, the 23-year-old blamed for mass killings at Virginia Tech. Meanwhile, authorities have yet to confirm that Cho is responsible for two earlier killings at a campus dorm.

During a September 2006 job interview, the White House counsel's office asked a U.S. attorney why he had "mishandled" an investigation of the close Washington governor's race. The interview with John McKay, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, was for a federal judgeship — a post McKay did not receive.

Since NPR reported on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder at Fort Carson, more soldiers and their families have reported neglect at their bases, too. Mental health specialists who work with military families say that the problem is widespread and common.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter, assesses the foreign policies of the three most recent U.S. presidents in Second Chance. He says Washington has squandered its first chance at global leadership.