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Treasury Secretary John Snow resigned Tuesday and President Bush nominated Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr. as his replacement -- another chapter in the shake-up to revive Bush's troubled presidency.

An embarrassing snafu for the BBC recently: In a live television interview, a job applicant was mistaken for an expert on Internet music downloads. The BBC's News 24 channel interviewed the man, who looked quite surprised to be on air. The BBC apologized this weekend, saying the wrong person was interviewed. Michele Norris and Melissa Block explain what happened.

The FBI says it has video footage of Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant. Jefferson, who has not been charged with anything, insists that he has committed no crime. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The owner of a Los Angeles firm that a supplies legal immigrant farm labor is being fined by federal authorities for allegedly failing to pay 88 temporary workers from Thailand. The owner of the company, Mordechai Orian, was recently profiled by NPR's Carrie Kahn, who has a follow-up report on his problems with the government.

Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged. Now, a self-taught inventor is once again eyeing the vast shale deposits of the Rocky Mountains.

The Dixie Chicks are back after a three-year break with a new album, Taking the Long Way. It's the band's first release after it experienced a furious backlash in 2003 after an anti-Bush comment by lead singer Natalie Maines.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of thousands of Latino immigrants skipped work to making their voices heard in the streets, supporting immigrants' rights. Two huge rallies were part of a national boycott.

A few miles from the Turkish border, in the former mining town of Vale, stands the House of Culture. Once the heart of the community, the huge structure is now a monument to post-Soviet decline. One flamboyant resident of Vale, known by locals as "Uncle Gocha," has worked without pay for 15 years to keep what's left from collapsing.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the army is trying to wipe out a group of renegade militiamen. In the 1990s, the Mai Mai were autonomous local defense forces but they've since mutated into small rogue armies. The government says the Mai Mai are terrorizing people in the southeast region of the country.

The number of American babies born prematurely has been creeping up, and nobody knows entirely why. An Institute of Medicine panel recommends a national effort to reduce these births, which cost the nation $26 billion a year.