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Zacarias Moussaoui offers surprising testimony at the sentencing phase of his trial. The confessed terrorist told the court he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks and fly it into the White House.

The most frightening thing the United States could do to Iran, short of attacking it, is to leave Iraq, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. The second most frightening thing for Iran, he says, would be a U.S. success in Iraq.

Several thousand people turn out in New Orleans for a march and rally led by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and others. They want a delay in local elections. Many New Orleans residents remain in far-off cities, displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Larry Stayer of Tulsa, Okla., is the surviving member of a group of four National Guardsmen who sang as a barbershop quartet during the Korean War. They performed and recorded songs while stationed in northern Japan. He recalls making harmony in a time of conflict.

From the Western Front trenches of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, soldiers have found comfort in the simple act of gardening. The author of a new book on wartime gardens call them an act of defiance.

The sun will set in a blaze of glory in Manhattan Sunday, fully illuminating every cross street during the last 15 minutes of daylight. Astronomers -- and druids -- are looking forward to the phenomenon, which will be repeated on July 13.

In the immigration debate, the most sweeping claims deal with jobs and pay. Some say that illegal immigrants work in jobs that Americans are unwilling to take. Others claim that illegal immigrants drive down wages for blue-collar workers. Economists say the reality is a lot more complicated.

American reporter Jill Carroll is released unharmed in Iraq, three months after she was kidnapped. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in an interview on Baghdad television. Her captors had demanded that female detainees be freed or Carroll would be killed.

The hot new thing in crime fiction comes from countries with cooler climes. Nordic crime stories are selling, and the biggest name is Henning Mankell, who may be the most famous Swedish writer since Strindberg. He has a huge global following.

The Dubai company that was to acquire rights to manage U.S. ports announces it will transfer the rights to a U.S. entity. The deal was soundly rejected by a House committee, and Republican congressional leaders told President Bush that the deal should be scrapped.