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Multiple sports were a mirror to the real world in the tumultuous week following Charlottesville. Football, basketball and even baseball.

Impeachment proceedings against the president of Taiwan have begun. Chen Shui-bian was the first opposition leader to win the office after the island began holding presidential elections a decade ago. Taiwan was ruled by founder Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party up until Chen took office.

The oil giant shut down a crucial field in Alaska Monday. But that's not its only problem. BP is defending itself against charges that it manipulated propane prices. Last year, one of its Texas refineries blew up, killing 15 and injuring almost 200. And other plants have been plagued by safety issues.

President Bush flies to New Mexico to sign the energy bill Congress just passed after more than four years of debate. The bill is 1,725 pages, and it includes a number of projects intended to please individual congressional districts.

A battle has begun on the border between the Republic of Georgia and Russia. Georgian forces backed by warplanes have launched a full-scale internal offensive in the region of South Ossetia. They're fighting with Russian-backed separatists over control of the breakaway region. Madeleine Brand talks with Lawrence Sheets about the fighting.

The U.S. government released evidence this week in its case against Bruce Ivins, who killed himself last month after he learned he would be charged in the 2001 anthrax mailing attacks. The prosecution presented its arguments in a news conference instead of a courtroom, which left Ivins' attorney, Paul Kemp, unsatisfied.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin, who says the Supreme Court has shifted its interpretation of the Second Amendment over time.

Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is pushing for a bill to lower prescription drug prices that divides the GOP. But it may be the only way to get a bill to President Trump's desk.

Planned Parenthood in Texas is deciding how to proceed after losing an important case in federal court. A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state can cut Planned Parenthood out of its women's health program because the organization is associated with abortion.

The average price of gasoline nationwide is expected to drop below $4 a gallon in the coming days as prices continue to fall from the record highs hit in June.