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President Obama has said health care will top his agenda for the next several weeks in hopes of getting a bill through each house of Congress by the august recess. Although he praised lawmakers Wednesday for moving forward on health care overhaul, there is still a long way to go.

President Obama acknowledged Friday his comments on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Junior had partly contributed to the media frenzy over the incident, saying he should have chosen his words more carefully. Obama also said he called the policeman who arrested Gates.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is on a short swing through the Middle East, was in Iraq on Tuesday. On his agenda: a visit to a command post in southern Iraq where U.S. troops serve in an advisory capacity; a meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a visit to Kurdistan.

The federal government wants the nation's employers to help in the fight against the H1N1 swine flu. It's developed a set of guidelines for businesses to follow. The major goal is to keep sick workers at home, not at work spreading the flu.

The federal government has started testing vaccines against the swine flu. About 2,800 volunteers at eight sites across the country will be rolling up their sleeves in the next week to receive experimental flu shots. U.S. Health officials are preparing for a possible fall outbreak.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings have ended, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed the vote on her nomination until next week. Former U.S. Atty. General Alberto Gonzales talks about the hearings, shares thoughts on the confirmation process, and what it would mean to have the first Latino judge on the Supreme Court.

The death of legendary CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite on Friday sent us scurrying for the archives — and we found a series of reports that he and producer John McDonough did for All Things Considered. We hear part of one of them — Cronkite remembering the first live satellite broadcast to Europe.

Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, a veteran of Iraq, is leading the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He exhorted his troops in a recent speech to besiege the enemy until the Taliban is dead or surrenders.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to discuss, among other things, North Korea. Pyongyang has been firing missiles and holding two American journalists.

Parting words from Walter Cronkite: His famous Vietnam commentary, originally aired on a special CBS News broadcast Feb. 27, 1968.