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A New Orleans grand jury did not indict Dr. Anna Pou, a physician accused of euthanizing four critically ill hospital patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Last summer, Pou and two nurses were charged with giving the patients lethal injections.

The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative deal on a new contract and strikers are back at work. UAW officials will now take the contract to their members who will vote on whether to accept it.

Kosovo, the former province of Yugoslavia has declared independence, stirring both enthusiasm and controversy around the world. Three Kosovar-Albanians discuss the meaning of independence and what lies ahead for the new Balkan country.

President Bush has endorsed the Republican nominee-in-waiting, John McCain. The president made the announcement with McCain in the White House Rose Garden after a lunch meeting. McCain says he looks forward to campaigning with President Bush at his side, and he says the president could be helpful in states such as Texas.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a roomful of bankers Tuesday that they need to do more to help troubled borrowers. Banks have been giving borrowers who are about to default more time to make payments and are renegotiating interest rates in some cases, but few banks have considered reducing the principal owed.

Miami's Cuban-Americans reacted with a big "been there, done that" Tuesday with the news that Fidel Castro is stepping down as the communist island's president. There were no widespread celebrations, like those that met the news in 2006 that Castro was sick and had handed power to his brother. Many exiles feel little will change anytime soon.

Plummeting stock markets around the world are affecting Wall Street, the international economy and individuals in a variety of ways. We break this down and examine why it's important to know what exactly a write-down is.

Scientists are poring over brand new images of the planet Mercury, including panoramas of a side of the planet that has never been seen. The images are being beamed back to Earth from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which flew past Mercury on Monday.

A prosecutor in Michigan announced Monday that she is bringing perjury and other charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy began investigating the mayor after the publication of racy text messages allegedly exchanged with his chief of staff.

Mark Penn, chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, stepped down Sunday. Penn quit the campaign after it was revealed that he met with a Colombian diplomat about passing a free trade deal that Sen. Clinton opposes.