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The vaccine couldn't have come at a more critical time, with a surge in cases and deaths from malaria during the pandemic. But its efficacy — and its schedule — are far from ideal.

Nina Totenberg reports on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's failure to disqualify himself from a mutual fund case in which he had a possible conflict of interest.

The jury in Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial decides that he is eligible for the death penalty. Moussaoui was defiant in the face of the ruling, yelling out in court, "You will never get my blood." In the next phase of the proceedings, the jury will hear more testimony and decide whether Moussaoui should receive the death penalty or life in prison.

Andrew McBride, a former U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Virginia, talks with Robert Siegel about the sentencing phase of federal death-penalty trials, and what jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case might consider as they deliberate his punishment for conspiring with al-Qaida.

NASA engineers are struggling to get to the bottom of a mysterious technical problem that scrubbed Wednesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery. Astronauts were already on board when word came that the launch was a no go. They now need to wait at least days if not weeks for another chance.

Mykolaiv sits near the edge of Russian-occupied areas of the country. We visit on the eve of an expected new Russian offensive in the area.

In a speech Monday in Tucson, Ariz., President Bush began an effort to outline his ideas on immigration reform, an issue likely to arise in Congress in the coming months. Mr. Bush continues his campaign Tuesday with a stop in the border city of El Paso, Texas.

Engineers trying to get the flood water out of New Orleans face many challenges in their task. Communication is a major problem. So is transportation. The Army Corps of Engineers needs to build crude roads just to get workers to the breached sections of the levee system.

Michele Norris talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and author of The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected, and Where He will Take the Catholic Church.