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Amid the ongoing financial crisis, the Bush administration called the McCain and Obama campaigns into the Oval Office for an emergency summit.

With hurricane season three months away, worries surface about whether the levees and floodwalls of New Orleans will be ready to hold back another storm. Col. Louis Setliff with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers talks to Robert Siegel about the responsibility of keeping the city safe from another flood.

The federal government releases its report on the how the economic stimulus has affected employment. The White House says jobs 650,000 have been saved or created under its plan.

President Obama delivers his first State of the Union speech Wednesday in the face of some serious challenges: Unemployment is at 10 percent, the White House is on the defensive and Democrats are angrily griping at one another. But the speech is a chance for Obama to speak directly to the American people.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Atlantic Council researcher Alia Brahimi how corruption in Libya contributed to the devastation wrought by recent flooding there.

NPR's David Greene talks to Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post about a data hack on Capital One Bank which has affected more than 100 million people in the U.S. and Canada.

The reconciliation agreement between Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas is already having an impact in the beleaguered Gaza Strip. After a childhood dominated by misery and war, Yusef Ali is finally daring to hope. The winds of change that came with the Arab spring have swept into the benighted pocket of coastal desert in which he's been trapped for his whole life. Ali's only 27, yet he's spent the last four years living like a pensioner. He's been paid — but he's banned from working, because he's a soldier in the Palestinian Presidential Guard. That security unit is part of the Palestinian Authority; he lives on land ruled by the Palestinian Authority's erstwhile rival Hamas. So he's spent his days getting depressed — and watching TV. Now the factions are reconciled, he hopes to be back in uniform soon. Residents of Gaza are delighted with the reconciliation agreement, believing it deepens Israel's isolation and strengthens their hand — particularly because of Egypt support. Yet, there's also a recognition too in this war-wearing place that setting up a government of national unity will not be at all easy after all the years of division and bloodshed.

"We're investing on average about $90,000 in the education of each student," says a university official. Where exactly is all that money going?

Recent hoaxes raise concerns that swatting is becoming a growing trend in political violence in the U.S. There are still many questions about who and what motivations lie behind these calls.

Columbia University officials answered lawmaker questions about antisemitism on campus. But Wednesday's hearing played out very differently from the 2023 hearing that grabbed so many headlines.