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Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress Friday after being confronted with sexually explicit Internet messages he reportedly sent to at least one, and possibly several, underage former male pages.

Brazil holds its presidential election Sunday. The incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, holds the lead, but there have been charges of corruption that may result in a runoff with his main opponent, former state governor Geraldo Alckmin of the centrist Social Democracy Party.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back on many years of Washington scandals -- usually involving sex or money.

American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.

The response to Mark Foley's unmasking as an Internet predator on juveniles is somewhere between an embarrassing blip and a disastrous exposure of hypocrisy. Either way, it doesn't help the GOP at a moment when doubts about Iraq are being fanned by intelligence reports and the hard-hitting new book from Bob Woodward.

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to a biologist. Roger Kornberg at Stanford University is being honored for figuring out the details of how our cells read DNA. He's not the first in his family to win a Nobel Prize. His father, Arthur Kornberg, won in 1959.

This weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led air strikes in Afghanistan. That war ousted the Taliban's brutal regime. It brought relief to many -- and tragedy to a few. Afghans who lived through it recall the bombing campaign.

The editorial page of The Washington Times, a small but influential newspaper among conservatives, on Tuesday called for the resignation of Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert over his failure to report inappropriate communications between an underage House page and former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL).

After disgraced Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned Friday amid a scandal over suggestive messages to Congressional pages, other congressional candidates who received contributions from Foley's office are struggling to decide what to do with the money.

Dmitri Shostakovich's most famous work, the Fifth Symphony, reflects his tenuous position as a creative artist in a repressive state. But the composer's overall contributions were stunningly diverse. Conductor Marin Alsop and Scott Simon reflect on the music of Shostakovich.