Fox sets immigration reform deadline
Mexico's president surprises the White House when he serves up a bold challenge on a carefully scripted day that ends with Bush's first state dinner.

Nelson a force in shuttle hearing
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bill Nelson, the indisputable space enthusiast who as a boy watched rockets pierce the sky over his home in Rock Point, is mounting opposition to the Bush administration's proposed cuts in shuttle safety upgrades.

Senator withdraws leaks legislation
WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from broadcast and newspaper executives, Attorney General John Ashcroft has defused, at least temporarily, an effort led by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., to criminalize leaks of classified government information to the news media.

Bushes bring capital's elite to fiesta for Foxes
WASHINGTON -- First lady Laura Bush called it a "sentimental first," an intimate and elegant dinner for friends. But from the hot pink bodice on her red lace gown to President Bush's cowboy boots, from the tequila sauce on the dessert to the fireworks on the back lawn, most elements of the Bushes' premier state dinner shouted, "Fiesta!"