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The Supreme Court draft opinion leak has sparked debate over penalties for people who disclose this kind of private information. Daniel Ellsberg, who shared the Pentagon Papers, gives his perspective.

The Iraqi committee drafting the country's new constitution may need more time to complete the task. Several fundamental issues are still unsolved and many committee members say the August 15 deadline can't be met. NPR's Philip Reeves in Baghdad has the latest developments.

A worn-out space suit on the International Space Station is getting a second life as a satellite. On Friday, astronauts will throw the suit out the orbiter's hatch. Those stuck on Earth will be able to track and listen to the suit as it circles the planet.

The state of California indefinitely postpones the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Michael Morales. The execution had also been delayed the day before because anesthesiologists refused to participate out of ethical concerns.

At many newspapers, the top priority these days is how best to prop up revenues. But the family that owns The Anniston Star in Alabama is quietly planning to devote the paper's profits to training new generations of reporters.

Scientists have pieced together the virus that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 1918 flu pandemic. The work is providing new insights into how a strain of flu can become so lethal.

Robin Webb is a state representative in Kentucky. Until she was 25, she worked as a coal miner. She describes why people do this kind of work and how they cope with ever present physical danger.

Airline officials in Greece say they've recovered the flight data recorders from the Cypriot jetliner that crashed Sunday. Penny Gourntis of the Athens News Agency talks about the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

At the start of his South Asia tour, President Bush makes an unscheduled stop in Afghanistan, where he meets with President Hamid Karzai and delivers a pep talk to U.S. soldiers at an airbase outside the capital, Kabul. The president is now in India.

The Democratic-led House select committee says it "has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States."