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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Bruce Bolter from New York City. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WNYC in New York.)

Lawmakers and former friends of Jack Abramoff are finding their hometown newspapers noticing their association with the indicted lobbyist.

President Bush wraps up a concerted public relations campaign aimed at rebuilding public support for the Iraq war. The president delivered his fourth major speech on the topic in the past two weeks, saying intelligence leading up to the war was wrong but standing by the outcome.

Stanley Tookie Williams, a co-founder of the Crips gang, dies by lethal injection at San Quentin prison, where spent the last 25 years of his life. Supporters said the convicted killer was a changed man who worked from behind bars to end gang violence.

Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush set forth goals including more science and math teachers, more tax cuts and less dependence on oil from the Middle East. The president called on lawmakers to set aside divisiveness, but he also took the fight directly to his critics -- especially on his policies in Iraq.

Ed Gordon talks with the Rev. Al Sharpton -- preacher, civil rights activist and former presidential candidate -- about the recent Millions More Movement March on the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March, the state of the Democratic Party and his new talk show.

Al Jazeera airs a video, dated Jan. 21, of four Western peace activists who were kidnapped in Iraq in November. With the tape comes a threat to kill the four if all Iraqi prisoners are not freed.

Alan Greenspan chairs his last meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee Tuesday and then retires from the central bank after 18 years. Observers give him generally high marks.

Women with a history of major depression who stop taking their medication during pregnancy have a high likelihood of relapse. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association counters earlier thinking that pregnancy protects women from depression.