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A day after Tom DeLay's indictment, which forced him to step down as House majority leader, members of both parties try to assess what it all means. DeLay faces a single count of criminal conspiracy relating to state campaign finance laws.

Powerful Texas Republican Tom DeLay reacts to his indictment on a criminal conspiracy charge by saying he has done nothing wrong and calling the prosecutor a "partisan fanatic." Also, other congressmen react to the charges.

President Bush says Iraq's Sunni minority has a choice to make about the country's new draft constitution. Speaking in Idaho, the president said Sunnis could overcome their objections to the document proposed by Iraq's Shiites and Kurds and live in a democracy. The other option, Bush said, is to live in violence.

Lee Raymond will step down as Mobil-Exxon's chairman and chief executive officer at the end of this year. He has been at Exxon for 42 years and oversaw the 1999 merger with Mobil.

A joint study by inspectors general for the Pentagon and State Department says Iraq's police service needs to do a better job of recruiting. The 96-page report released Monday said poor vetting procedures have admitted recruits with criminal backgrounds and even insurgents planning terrorist attacks.

Alex Chadwick talks to Slate legal affairs writer Emily Bazelon about how the so-called "war on terror" may be influencing national policy on torture. Slate has published an extensive collection of data and documents on the events leading up to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the U.S. government's response to numerous allegations of prisoner abuse.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with President Bush at the White House in a bid to bolster relations with the United States and advance the peace process with Israel. Abbas came away from the meeting with a U.S. pledge of $50 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority.

Seeking to blunt growing criticism over high energy prices, President Bush is proposing to speed construction of nuclear power plants and oil refineries -- possibly on retired military bases. He also made a pitch to boost sales of energy-efficient vehicles.

John Bolton, President Bush's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, pledges to build a more robust world body. He is expected to face tough questioning during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Monday. Democrats hope to block the nomination of the blunt U.N. critic.

The no-nonsense ladies of the Wednesday Club meet for lunch and learning at their own clubhouse near Balboa Park - a narrow one-block street off Fifth Avenue that, for 92 years, has defied vehicular traffic.