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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki meets with President Bush at the White House. They are expected to discuss the ongoing crisis in Lebanon, and the continuing sectarian violence in Iraq.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that regulators may have misinterpreted the federal Clean Water Act when they refused to allow two Michigan men to build on wetlands they own. The 5-4 decision came after debate over whether government can extend protection for wetlands miles away from waterways.

U.S. Episcopalians elect a woman to head the more than 2-million-member denomination. Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada is the first female bishop to head the national churches in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

The U.S. military is making a fresh attempt to take control of Ramadi, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab city. Philip Reeves has been on patrol with U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency. The Marines now control the center of the town, but not much else.

The Supreme Court rules that prosecutors may use some recorded 911 emergency calls as courtroom evidence, even if the victim of a crime is not in court for cross-examination.

According to the FBI, violent crime in the United States is on the rise. Last year saw the biggest jump since the early 1990s. Criminologists say there are many possible reasons, from cutbacks in funding for federal crime-prevention programs to a greater focus on terrorism and a resurgence of gangs.

Presidential adviser Karl Rove may have played a part in loosening EPA regulations for a Republican oil executive, according to an article in The Los Angeles Times. According to the article by Times reporter Tom Hamburger, Rove received a 2002 letter from Republican activist and Texas oil tycoon Ernest Angelo about the regulation. Robert Siegel talks with Hamburger.

A Russian woman living in Burgundy wanted to help pet dogs of Ukraine and their human companions get to safety. She turned to a Facebook group for lovers of a famous dog breed to find them.

Julián Moreno is the retired pastor of a Baptist church in Uvalde. Members of the congregation gathered to remember his great-granddaugher and another girl who was killed in the shooting.

We asked AAPI photographers, 'What is the story of your name and what does it mean to you?'