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The nation lost 63,000 jobs in February, the first time jobs have dropped two months in a row since 2003. We hear from people in Michigan, one of the hardest hit states, about what it's like to be unemployed and what they're doing to get back on track.

Voters in Brazil head to the polls in a runoff vote for president. Incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a huge lead in opinion polls over his centrist rival, Geraldo Alckmin.

Coming quickly on the heels of a sweeping Democratic victory in the midterm vote, President Bush says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will resign, and former CIA chief Robert Gates will take over as Pentagon chief pending Senate confirmation hearings.

The big question tonight in Baghdad is whether Saddam Hussein is on his way to the gallows. There were reports today that U.S. forces had turned the former dictator over to Iraqi authorities. That was not supposed to happen until just before Saddam's execution.

Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the Middle East this week, her fourth trip in as many months. The U.S. Secretary of State is there for a new round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

The United States ambassador to Baghdad and his Iranian counterpart met for four hours Monday in what the American side called a business-like atmosphere. The talks focused on one subject only: Iraq.

North Korea has agreed to provide a "complete and correct declaration" of its nuclear programs and says it will disable its main reactor complex by Dec. 31. The deal with five other countries has the U.S. taking a lead in overseeing the shutdown and funding initial activities.

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets always insisted that he did not have regrets.

Argentines go to the polls this weekend to elect their next president. First lady Christina Fernandez de Kirchner's candidacy has been boosted by the success of her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, in reviving Argentina's economy. But inflation has become the latest national preoccupation.

The Bush administration castigated Congress on Friday for not passing comprehensive immigration legislation and proposed rules that would require employers to fire people whose Social Security numbers don't match that agency's records.