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In Duluth, Minn., on Thursday, a federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas for copyright infringement for sharing music online. Thomas is to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs involved in the case. Eric Bangeman, who has been covering the trial for the tech Web site Ars Technica, talks with Michele Norris about what the case will mean for future litigation involving file sharing.

Some 250 Iraqi-Americans have come to Ft. Irwin, Calif., to help U.S. troops adjust to working around Iraqi civilians. The actors work in fake Iraqi villages and play a variety of roles — from civilians to suicide bombers.

American Electric Power, an Ohio-based company, has agreed to a $4.6 billion settlement of a lawsuit over pollution controls at its power plants. The Justice Department says it's the biggest environmental enforcement settlement ever.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Palestinian leaders, pushing ahead with preparations for a November peace conference in the U.S.

The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics will be shared by two Europeans who discovered the physics that allows computer hard drives to compress large amounts of data. The prize was awarded to Albert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany.

Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric Maskin of Princeton and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago share the prize. They were honored for laying the foundation of mechanism design theory.

In the wake of a House committee vote to label as genocide the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. was recalled for consultations. He will be gone for a week or 10 days, a foreign ministry official says.

North Korea has agreed to provide a "complete and correct declaration" of its nuclear programs and says it will disable its main reactor complex by Dec. 31. The deal with five other countries has the U.S. taking a lead in overseeing the shutdown and funding initial activities.

Olympic champion sprinter Marion Jones has admitted using steroids in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Games and plans to plead guilty on Friday to lying about her drug use.

Olympic track and field star Marion Jones has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about using steroids. The three-time Olympic gold medalist also announced her retirement from the sport on Friday. Michele Norris has an update.