In universities across the United States, young leaders are emerging to represent the new face of Islam. In "Mecca and Main Street," Geneive Abdo examines the raging — and sometimes violent — debate between moderate and conservative young Muslims.

POWELL, Ohio -- U.S. Rep. Andre Carson showed up Saturday night at a home in this affluent Columbus, Ohio, suburb as a candidate among strangers. He left with some of the best friends a freshman congressman could have.

For many South Jersey children, "snow day" means Stokes Hill in Moorestown. "My whole life and way before, people were sledding on that hill," said Bill Archer, 65, a volunteer at the Moorestown Historical Society.

WASHINGTON — Student activist Malcolm Harris is no William Ayers, but he is plenty familiar with the attacks on Barack Obama for his connections to the onetime radical.

Despite the power sharing talks, once again civil society groups have become victims of the government's continued anti-activism clamp-down this week.