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Eight months after a deadly explosion at a Massey Energy coal mine in West Virginia, CEO and board Chairman Don Blankenship suddenly surrendered control of the company Friday. His reign was marked by seemingly endless controversy.

Social scientists say three things matter for success in life: IQ, family's socioeconomic status and one thing that's easy to influence: self-control. A child's self-control in preschool helps predict possible health, substance abuse and financial problems later in life, researchers found.

UCSD and the Burnham Institute of Medical Research have begun a program to create a new class of cancer researchers.

BP says a new cap has stopped oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. The energy giant has been slowly dialing down the flow as part of a test on a new cap, and engineers are now monitoring the pressure to see if the broken well holds.

Jewish settlers broke ground on new construction projects Wednesday in the West Bank, defying a ban imposed by Israel that expires at the end of the month. Settlers and their government supporters have been pushing to end the freeze. But Palestinians say they'll walk out of peace talks if that happens.

Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance — the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic systems.

A promising-but-troubled San Diego biotech company has forced out four executives, including its CEO. This follows news that employees of Sequenom mishandled trial results for its Down syndrome test.

Despite some legislative successes, hopes for bipartisanship expressed by the Democratic leaders and President Bush were not realized in the first session of the 110th Congress. Andrea Seabrook speaks with John Bresnahan, Capitol Hill bureau chief of the Politico newspaper and Ross Baker, political science professor at Rutgers University.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for the start of a state visit in which insecurity in Mexico and Calderon's drug war are likely to be high on the agenda.

Why are voters not interested in Tuesday's Special Election? We'll explore the politics behind ballot-box budgeting and what the outcome of the election means for the state.