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Recent fighting between Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas has left Gaza and the West Bank divided. Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist and director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Jerusalem, discusses how Hamas and Fatah became rivals, and why Hamas is strong in Gaza versus Fatah's strength in the West Bank.

The Senate killed President Bush's main domestic policy issue — overhauling immigration laws — as Republican support collapsed. News from Iraq was grim. And the White House invoked executive privilege in response to subpoenas from Congress.

The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that districts in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., went too far in their school-desegregation plans by using a student's race to determine which school he or she is assigned to.

The president's move to spare the former White House aide from 2 ½ years in prison for lying and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case has brought harsh criticism from Democrats who say the decision shows the administration's lack of accountability.

The Supreme Court's surprise decision this week to hear another case involving the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees could have a profound impact on hundreds of prisoners there, and for U.S. policy on detaining enemy combatants.

British police arrested two more suspects in their investigation of attempted terrorist attacks last week. A total of seven people have now been detained in what a senior police official called "a fast-moving investigation."

Hamas fighters are on the verge of over-running the remaining strongholds of Fatah in the Gaza Strip. President Mahmoud Abbas remains in the West Bank, seemingly powerless to stop the warfare.

Elder statesman Shimon Peres was elected to the largely ceremonial post of president of Israel Wednesday, capping a career that has spanned six decades and, Israelis hope, restoring dignity to a position that has been marred by allegations of rape and sexual assault swirling around the country's current president.

Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. His tenure as Austria's president was tainted by revelations that he had concealed his service in the German army in Greece during World War II, at a time when the Nazis committed numerous war crimes.

The Senate is debating a new energy bill that would raise average mileage standards for cars, light trucks and SUVs, from 25 to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The Auto Industry argues that hiking mileage standards will mean lost jobs and less safe vehicles for Americans.