Among the major news that made headlines this week:
1) Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is nominated to take his place. Health and Human Services Commissioner Tommy Thompson announced his resignation as well.
2) President Bush sticks to his January 30th, 2004 timeline for elections in Iraq, despite continued violence and calls to move the date back.
3) After weeks of unrest, Ukraine’s Supreme Court nullifies the country’s disputed Nov. 21, 2004 presidential election.
4) Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman calls for the resignation of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after deeming the U.N.’s Iraq oil-for-food program corrupt.
5) Leaked grand jury testimony confirms that at least one Major League baseball star knowingly used performance-enhancing steroids and slugger Barry Bonds may have used them unknowingly.
6) The Supreme Court hears arguments over whether states can allow medicinal use of marijuana.
7) And after 23 years at the helm of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw says good-bye.
Hear On Point host Tom Ashbrook and news analyst Jack Beatty look back at this week’s major news.
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