NEW YORK -- She wears torn nightgowns and sleeps on a couch that smells of urine. Her bland diet includes pureed peas and oatmeal. Her dogs, once a source of comfort, are kept locked in a pantry.

LOS ANGELES -- Rupert Pole, husband of Anais Nin and guardian of the diarist's erotic literary legacy detailing her simultaneous marriages to men on different coasts, has died. He was 87.

WASHINGTON -- The government is failing to reduce health risks from toxic air pollution as required by law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

HOUSTON -- In a dramatic turnaround from her first murder trial, Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in the drowning of her children in the bathtub.

WASHINGTON -- Just weeks after lawmakers plunged into a bitter debate on the war in Iraq, during which some Democrats called the U.S. commitment a grotesque mistake, the nation's new leader was given center stage in Congress.

WASHINGTON -- A military judge said Wednesday that e-mails from the head of the Naval Academy and a sexual abuse training video may have swayed potential jurors in the court-martial of a Navy football player charged with sexually assaulting a female midshipman.