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Israeli troops seek to evacuate two isolated settlements in the northern West Bank. Police stormed a citadel and synagogues in the Sanur and Homesh enclaves that had been fortified by protesters. Most of the settlers left days earlier, and the protesters are primarily from other West Bank settlements.

After nearly going extinct, the grizzly population in the Yellowstone region is 600 strong. The Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to remove them from the list of threatened species. Many conservation groups say it is too soon to de-list the bears, whose population is still fragile.

A Salt Lake City television station is refusing to air an ad featuring anti-Iraq war activist Cindy Sheehan. The station says the ad is inappropriate, but critics say the station can't take the political heat.

Northwest Airlines continues to operate with 1,500 replacement workers covering for 2,900 unionized mechanics and custodians who walked off the job early Saturday morning. Airline officials are claiming victory, but so are union members, who are protesting layoffs and pay cuts.

Israel's Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigns from his post in protest of Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed Vice Premier Ehud Olmert to replace Netanyahu.

The ruling overturns an injunction barring state officials from following Abbott's directive to view treatments such as hormones and puberty-blocking drugs as incidents of child abuse.

President Bush flies to New Mexico to sign the energy bill Congress just passed after more than four years of debate. The bill is 1,725 pages, and it includes a number of projects intended to please individual congressional districts.

The energy bill signed into law by President Bush offers billions of dollars in tax incentives, loan guarantees and other federal aid to promote energy production. Included in the plan is nuclear power, which supplies 20 percent of the electricity in the United States.

OK Go's dance video for the song "A Million Ways" has become a sensation on the Internet... and it was never intended for public release. Robert Siegel talks with singer/guitarist Damian Kulash and his sister Trish Sie, who choreographed the dance.

The Bush administration will open the nation's strategic petroleum reserve and suspend some air-quality regulations in an effort to control soaring gasoline prices driven by Hurricane Katrina. The price of a gallon of unleaded gas shot up to more than $3 per gallon in many areas.