Sarah Palin says she is stepping down as Alaska's governor at the end of the month. The former Republican vice presidential candidate makes the bombshell announcement from her home in Wasilla, Alaska. She does not say what her plans are, but her announcement gives rise to speculation that she wants to focus on a run for the White House in 2012.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor once worked with a Puerto Rican civil rights group that a GOP leader says "took extreme positions on legal issues ranging from the death penalty to abortion to racial quotas." But a Democrat says the GOP is simply determined to slam any presidential pick.

Police interviewing an Ohio woman about a murder case get quite the surprise when a squirrel suddenly pops out of her tank top. The woman pushes the animal back into her top and continues with the interview.

A Princeton academic uses educated guesses and a sophisticated computer program to break a never-before deciphered code that was sent to President Thomas Jefferson in 1801.

In 1971, a German teenager was the only survivor of a plane crash in Peru. Today, Juliane Koepcke says her memories become especially clear when she hears about recent crashes.