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An estimated $2 billion has been spent on television campaign ads this year. That's, by far, the most ever spent in one election year, including presidential campaigns.

Thanks to early and absentee voting, the 2006 midterm elections are already well under way. Thirty-five states have no restriction on either absentee or early voting and 15 allow absentee or early voting with state-specific requirements.

The president of the National Association of Evangelicals resigned Thursday after a male prostitute claimed on a Denver radio show that the two had had a three-year sexual relationship. While denying the claims, the Rev. Ted Haggard has also taken a leave of absence as pastor of his Colorado Springs mega-church.

Colorado pastor Ted Haggard admits that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute. But the former leader of the New Life Church, who resigned following the allegations, says he did not have sex with the man.

In a mounting war against trans fat, officials at Kentucky Fried Chicken announce that the company will begin frying most of its foods with an oil that doesn't contain trans fat. Omitting trans fat, which is especially bad for people's arteries, may affect not only the food's taste, but also costumers' health, and the company's business.

Ted Haggard, the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of a "mega-church" in Colorado Springs, Colo., is embroiled in a scandal over his hiring a male prostitute and buying drugs. Previously, Haggard has called homosexuality a violation of God's plan.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments surrounding an Oregon jury's $79-million-plus award to a smoker's widow. Philip Morris challenged the award.

Community and food are the central topics of Bonny Wolf's new book, a collection of essays called Talking with My Mouth Full. Wolf shares her thoughts on the recent shift in U.S. attitudes toward food.

The cactus moth, which has already become an expensive pest in the Caribbean and the southern United States, has now invaded Mexico. An infestation in Isla Mujeres near Cancun, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is destroying the nopal cactus, a food source that has been a staple since pre-Colonial times.

North Carolina is fed up with air pollution from other states making people sick and blanketing its scenic vistas with haze. Now it hopes to force the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of country's biggest polluters, to change its ways by using one of the oldest types of lawsuits: the nuisance suit.