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Lawyers for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui question a psychologist about the confessed terrorist's mental state. Moussaoui's defense team is trying to repair damage done by their client last week, when he told the jury weighing the death penalty that he would attack America if he could.

Leesburg, Fla., has lost a landmark. Out on Highway 27, Dr. Fergie's colorful fruit stand, an eyecatcher for decades, has been dismantled. Proprietor Donald Ferguson, 56, was killed in an October traffic accident.

General Motors last week announced plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs and close plants over the next two years. Industry analysts say the cuts are a good first step to return the automaker to profitability, but most say the job of fixing GM is far from over. Much of the task of turning the company around rests on the shoulders of GM's chairman and CEO, Richard Wagoner.

As lawmakers ask for more information from the Bush administration on progress in Iraq, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) suggests that President Bush should follow the lead of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and hold "fireside chats" with Americans.

The search continues for survivors of Friday's mudslides in the Philippines, but no one has been found for days, and 1,800 residents of the village of Guinsaugon are feared dead. Debbie Elliot spoke with Carlos Conde, who has been reporting on the disaster for The New York Times.

Ted Kooser, the nation's poet laureate, has been traveling around the country talking to librarians, school children and other groups about poetry. One of his stops was in Kansas City, Mo., where he led a workshop with some of Hallmark's greeting card writers.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) plan emergency legislation next week to put a deal with Dubai Ports World on hold pending further investigation. Schumer talks with Robert Siegel about his objection to the deal, and the questions he sent President Bush about the investigation.

Jurors in a federal case involving the painkiller Vioxx hear a Cleveland Clinic physician accuse drugmaker Merck of scientific misconduct. The suit was brought by a woman whose husband died of a heart attack after taking Vioxx.

Amid growing criticism of U.S. strategy in Iraq, President Bush prepares to deliver a policy address Wednesday on the state of the war. On Monday, the president spoke about plans to change immigration laws. Both issues are dividing the country ahead of midterm elections in 2006.

Oil prices are destined to slip somewhat in the coming years, according to British Petroleum CEO Lord John Browne. Browne says that high inventories of crude oil prove "that the global supply system works rather well."