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A state judge imposes a $1 million a day fine against the Transport Workers Union for defying a state law that prohibits strikes by public employees. Millions of commuters are struggling to get around New York City after subway and bus workers walked off the job early Tuesday morning.

Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread mumps from Iowa to several other Midwestern states, health officials say. The epidemic -- Iowa may have as many as 600 cases -- is a new example of how quickly diseases can spread through air travel. The outbreak is the largest in 18 years.

In a news conference Monday morning, President Bush takes questions on topics ranging from Iraq to his acknowledgement that he authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without a warrant after Sept. 11.

In what is only his second speech from the seat of presidential power since announcing the invasion of Iraq, President Bush outlines his plan for the way forward in Iraq.

Commentator John Ridley is critical of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson's offer to pay the college tuition of a woman who has accused several members of the Duke University lacrosse team of rape. The case has taken on strong racial overtones because the accuser is black, and almost all the members of the team are white. Ridley says Jackson should wait until the facts of the case are clear.

Central Grocery, one of New Orleans' best-loved specialty foods stores, had to close for a few months after Hurricane Katrina hit. But one of its owners forged ahead to re-open in time for Mardi Gras and the Central Grocery's 100th birthday.

When Margi Scharff felt stomach pain in India, she assumed it was "Delhi Belly," an ailment often afflicting visitors. The 51-year-old artist, based in Los Angeles, was instead told she has advanced ovarian cancer.

Putting welfare recipients to work is at the heart of the federal welfare law passed 10 years ago. But while the original law allowed states to decide how best to meet federal goals, some officials fear that the Bush administration will remove some of the flexibility that they say has made the law a success.

Ping Fu has spent decades envisioning new uses for computers. Now she thinks she's really on to something: a technology that can scan 3-D objects, re-creating them virtually — and in the real world.

Harlem Renaissance painter Ernest Crichlow died in New York at the age of 91. His work depicted the shifting experiences of African-Americans through much of the 20th century. Allison Keyes has a remembrance.