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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist backpedals on remarks earlier this week suggesting that a Social Security bill might not come to the floor this year. Thursday, Frist said there would be a bill this year.

At the 47th annual Grammy Awards, Ray Charles' final album, Genius Loves Company, earns eight Grammys, including album of the year and record of the year, for his duet with Norah Jones. Singer Alicia Keys came away with four Grammys and R&B artist Usher won three.

Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to four bombings, including one at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and another at an abortion clinic in Alabama. The plea allows Rudolph, who eluded authorities for more than five years after the attacks, to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life in prison.

A trial for five former executives of Enron's Internet technology division begins Monday in Houston. They are charged with artificially inflating stock prices in 1999 by lying about the company's broadband Internet network's capabilities and benefiting from selling their own stocks.

The Senate will debate a measure that would increase the nation's minimum wage, which currently stands at $5.15. Democrats are pushing for an increase of about $2 per hour while Republicans favor a smaller increase. Many business groups oppose the proposed hike.

Hundreds of thousands jam the streets for the funeral of murdered former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut. Hariri's family asked that no state officials from either Lebanon or Syria attend. Michele Norris talks with Nicholas Blanford of the Christian Science Monitor.

Telephone and Internet connections are only intermittently available in the wake of King Gyanendra's move to sack his government and assume power himself. The king is attempting to stifle public opposition to what some of his critics are calling a royal coup.

Officials in Atlanta have arrested the man who escaped from the Fulton County courthouse on Friday after a shootout. Brian Nichols is suspected of killing four people and critically injuring one. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports.

The Democratic Party is embracing two anti-abortion candidates for the Senate in 2006 in an effort to broaden the party's appeal to voters. Party leaders say Democrats remain committed to a fundamental pro-choice platform. But the move has disappointed many longtime allies.

A thousand delegates begin a conference in Baghdad to choose an interim national assembly. The proceedings were disrupted when insurgents fired mortar shells that hit a bus station near the meeting hall, killing two people. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Ivan Watson.