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Senate Democrats close ranks to delay a vote on John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Democrats say they will allow Bolton to face a vote, but only if the Bush administration provides access to classified documents.

Two weeks after the death of Pope John Paul II, the process of electing a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church formally begins. The public was invited to Monday morning's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. But the actual conclave, meeting in the Sistine Chapel, is shrouded in secrecy.

Airline officials in Greece say passengers on a Cypriot jetliner may already have been dead when their plane crashed into a mountainside Sunday. The crash killed all 121 people on board, which makes it the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

In Baghdad, gunmen attack senior diplomats from Pakistan and Bahrain. Bahrain's top envoy in Bahgdad was slightly wounded -- while the head of the Pakistani mission escaped injury.

Acting Director David Paulison tells the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will review no-bid contracts awarded after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The contracts are worth millions of dollars.

President Bush has asked Americans to cut back on fuel usage as oil companies and refineries in the hurricane-affected Gulf Coast region work to resume production at facilities.

Residents in Port Arthur, Texas, are thankful there was not more destruction in their town, which took a heavy blow from Hurricane Rita. With an intact seawall assuring that a catastrophe would be avoided, there was still considerable damage in the town.

Women with a history of major depression who stop taking their medication during pregnancy have a high likelihood of relapse. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association counters earlier thinking that pregnancy protects women from depression.

Thousands demonstrate in the bitter cold in Washington -- some against abortion, others in favor of abortion rights -- on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal in the United States. NPR's Jacki Northam reports.

Will Congress try again to ban human cloning? The debate is sure to escalate after Friday's claim that a newborn girl is the first human clone -- and more are on the way. There's no proof of the claim yet. And opponents and supporters of cloning are still battling over terminology. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.