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The U.S., EU, Russia and the U.N. have agreed on a deal to create a trust fund for the Palestinian Authority. The authority is in the midst of a deepening financial crisis created when Hamas was voted into power, prompting Western donors to end their support for the government. The four powers now hope to get aid directly to the Palestinian people.

A Cadillac salesman and an oil-rig engineer are working to put the nation's first offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jack Devine, a 32-year CIA veteran, says the next person put in charge of the agency needs to rally the organization's sagging morale, and then turn his attention to the problems of Iraq and Afghanistan. Devine worked in the CIA's clandestine services. He left in 1999.

President Bush announces his choice to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. If confirmed by the Senate, Hayden would replace Porter Goss, who resigned under pressure on Friday.

NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts talks about President Bush's nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA. Porter Goss resigned from the position on Friday.

The next CIA director may be Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, an aide to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Porter Goss said Friday he will leave the top CIA post. Did he jump or was he pushed?

New Orleans rapper Juvenile's appearance at this year's Jazz and Heritage Festival was poignant. His own home was destroyed by Katrina. His recent lyrics focus on the city's problems.

Contracts awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for post-Hurricane Katrina work along the Gulf Coast were initially awarded to big firms. But some local, smaller firms are questioning the deals. Unsuccessful bidders say the government didn't follow its own rules.

Even though South Korean scientists apparently failed to make human embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos, several teams around the world are still planning to achieve that goal. To do that, they will need a source of human eggs. But those eggs may be hard to come by.

Germany has reversed its decades-long opposition to opening its Holocaust archive. The files contain information on more than 17 million people who were murdered or forced into slave labor by the Nazis.