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It's a time of upheaval in the U.S. House, amid lobbying scandals and the indictment of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay on campaign finance charges. Melissa Block talks to Walter Shapiro, Washington bureau chief for Salon.com, about the race among three House Republicans seeking to succeed DeLay in the majority leader's post.

President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House Tuesday. They discussed aid for Africa and global warming, subjects on which they disagree. Bush pledged an additional $674 million for famine relief in Africa, but it's far less than what Blair was seeking.

John Moore describes photographing the distressed Honduran toddler, whose mother was being searched by U.S. Border Patrol. That moment, he says, "was just part of a very, very long journey" for them.

A mother seeks advice on how to get her ex-husband to keep their sons on his plan because it would be less costly than hers.

One family, the Goodwins, was forever changed by the attacks in Oklahoma more than a century ago and worked to ensure Tulsa acknowledged the truth about what happened.

A New York Times investigation has revealed allegations that the late renowned labor leader abused girls and raped Dolores Huerta, his longtime organizing partner.

The court's conservative majority could invalidate the section of the Voting Rights Act aimed at ensuring minority voters are not shut out of the process of drawing new congressional district lines.

Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke earned early release from prison. Activists now seek federal charges for violating McDonald's civil rights. He was 17 when he was killed in 2014.

Betty Friedan, whose manifesto The Feminine Mystique became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.

Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, was sentenced to jail Wednesday after she refused to identify a confidential source who leaked the name of CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Time magazine's Matthew Cooper was also slated to go to jail for refusing to name his source, but at the last minute, his source offered him a reprieve.