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Rep. Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, announces he is resigning from Congress by June. After his decision became public, Andrea Seabrook spoke the Texas Republican by phone and asked him whether he was backing away from a fight.

The Supreme Court declines to review the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested in Chicago and held without charges for more than three years. The government initially declared Padilla an enemy combatant. The justices warned that if Padilla's status changed again, they would return to the case.

The trial of former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay enters a critical phase Thursday, when Skilling is expected to testify. Accused of conspiring to deceive investors, analysts and the public about Enron's financial condition, Skilling faces decades in prison if convicted.

In the next few weeks, millions of songbirds, shorebirds and waterfowl will begin arriving in Alaska to breed. These migratory birds -- some of which wintered in Southeast Asia -- could bring with them the deadly strain of bird flu known as avian influenza A, or H5N1.

News that Rep. Tom DeLay has decided to give up his House seat leaves many in the veteran Republican's hometown of Sugar Land, Texas, scratching their heads. With the primaries already come and gone, few voters think the timing of the former House Majority Leader's announcement is anything other than puzzling.

The Turnaway Study followed nearly 1,000 women who sought abortions, interviewing them regularly for years to understand the impact on their mental and financial wellbeing.

Texas Congressman Tom DeLay plans to resign his seat in the coming weeks. The Republican former House majority leader doubts his chances of winning re-election in the face of mounting political troubles.

Foreign correspondent Neil MacFarquhar writes about a world he knows well — war- reporting in the Middle East — in a debut novel, The Sand Cafe. He tells Liane Hansen what it's like to go from hard news to fiction.

The Buffalo suspect allegedly published a 180-page document online that repeats a series of racist conspiracy theories in an attempt to justify his plan to search out African Americans and kill them.

Ants that limbo... lazy, sex-hungry mole rats.... and a parasitic worm that slithers out nostrils. All attracted the attention of serious scientists this week. The latest from the annals of strange-but-true animal research.