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The Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial continues with testimony from the families of World Trade Center attack victims. The prosecutors also presented evidence of suffering from the Pentagon attack. The government is trying to convince the jury to vote for the death penalty for Moussaoui.

The Massachusetts legislature has enacted a bill designed to provide health insurance for nearly all its citizens. If Gov. Mitt Romney signs it, the state would become the first in the nation to require all individuals to have health coverage or pay a penalty.

The White House releases its budget for the 2007 fiscal year. The plan totals $2.77 trillion -- with sizeable increases in defense and homeland security spending. But it also reduces funding to more than 140 social programs, including Medicare -- and assumes some tax cuts will be made permanent.

The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in favor of Oregon's law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The law allows doctors to prescribe lethal narcotics to those who have been certified by two physicians as psychologically unimpaired and having less than six months to live.

President Bush returns from a three-nation tour of South Asia. The trip produced a nuclear deal with India and prompted violent anti-American protests. At a news conference in Islamabad, the president called Pakistan's President Pervez Musahareff a man of courage and vision.

Harry Whittington, wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident last weekend, leaves a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. In a brief statement, the 78-year-old lawyer said he regrets the trouble the incident has caused Cheney.

Saddam Hussein is ushered out of the courtroom after arguing with the new judge presiding over his trial. Lourdes Garcia-Navarro has an account of today's dramatic proceedings.

Haiti prepares for its first presidential election in nearly two years. Officials say they have a system in place to assure a fair process at Tuesday's polls. But the unstable nation is experiencing an upsurge in violence, and U.N. forces will provide security as millions of Haitians vote.

A report by the Council of Europe says 14 European countries colluded in the secret transfers of terrorism suspects by the CIA. The report also alleges that at least two airports, in Poland and Romania, were used to transfer and drop off detainees.

Vice President Dick Cheney tells Fox News that he accepts responsibility for the hunting accident that injured another hunter. He also says he doesn't regret waiting to acknowledge the incident. It is the first time Cheney has spoken publicly about the shooting, which happened Saturday.