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Gas prices are soaring across the country, but particularly in California. Fuel in the San Francisco Bay Area has topped $3, though the hike has not caused an attendant spike in public transportation ridership.

A most unlikely CD has been close to the top of the Billboard charts recently. The Mars Volta, from Texas, somehow missed the news that progressive rock was nearly extinct. Their new CD, Frances the Mute, is a saga based on the diary of a child in search of a birth mother.

A civilian panel's report pins much of the direct blame for abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on a few rogue soldiers on the night shift. But it also faults the Pentagon's top leaders, and is especially critical of Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former senior military commander in Iraq.

Top Fannie Mae executives defend the company's accounting practices in Congress. CEO Franklin Raines denied allegations the company had manipulated its books, telling lawmakers the controversy at the mortgage giant stems from different ways to interpret complex accounting rules. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Wisconsin holds top billing Tuesday, with a competitive Republican governor's primary highlighting races there.

Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson says that determining whether or not we're technically in a recession shouldn't be top of mind.

The album is sung by top artists such as Norah Jones, Peter Gabriel, Bill Frisell and Mavis Staples.

A top defense official says Iran could produce enough fissile material for one nuclear bomb in about 12 days.

Americans also trust Republicans more to tackle inflation, a top campaign issue, according to the poll.

Muldaur traveled to Amsterdam to find a group of top-notch European classical musicians to tackle distinctly non-European, and mostly non-classical work.