CNN reports Thursday morning that Rep. Anthony Weiner will resign.

Informed sources within the Democratic Party told the network he will announce his resignation later on Thursday. Though he has neither a career nor a job to fall back on, the often abrasive Democratic congressman from New York apparently will leave office effective ASAP.

Weiner has been under increasing pressure by Democrats to resign after repeated instances of sexting became public, after several women came forward charging him with "lewd conduct," and after he attempted to deny it.

Those looking for federal help with Everglades restoration suffered something of a blow Wednesday when the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would cut $32.7 million from the president's $162.7 million fiscal 2012 spending request.

That would leave just $130 million in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' budget and it would mean nearly a $19 million reduction from the current appropriation.

Maybe Rep. Anthony Weiner was paying attention Wednesday night when former Congressman Mark Foley told his story, because Weiner, 46, disclosed to a friend and former aide that he will enter a treatment program for sexual dysfunction and request a leave of absence from Congress.

In his first national television interview since he resigned from the U.S. House in a cloud of scandal in 2006, Mark Foley admitted to Fox News' "Hannity" viewers Thursday night that his sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages were "horriffic behavior" that "embarrassed myself, my staff, my constituents, the Chamber I loved ..."

From what was described as an "ink-black launchpad at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan," a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft with an international crew blasted off Tuesday afternoon, heading for the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), traveled at speeds of up to 13,500 mph, looking to orbit the space station on Thursday. The launch went off as scheduled and without incident at 4:12 p.m. EDT.

Bad as public records delays are in the Florida governor's office, imagine if you were looking for an e-mail in the Alaska governor's office of Sarah Palin back in 2008.

You could have died waiting.

On Friday morning, when the office of the Alaska chief executive releases the 24,199 pages of Palin records requested by msnbc.com, 997 days will have passed. That's one day longer than Mama Grizzly was governor.

At a press conference Monday, Rep. Anthony Weiner, the New York Democrat who almost got to celebrate his first anniversary unhassled by Twitterworld, admitted he lied about claiming his Twitter account was hacked and acknowledged he sent lewd photos.

He also said he will not resign.

Have a look at the video of Weiner's statement below. Later, expect a host of late-show comedians to light up the night with the odd joke or two at Weiner's further expense.

Hari Sevugan, national spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, has accepted a top position at Students First, Michelle Rhee's Washington, D.C.-based, high-profile education advocacy group. Washington insiders say Sevugan is making the move to strengthen his credentials on education policy.

Brian Burgess, communications director for Gov. Rick Scott, released the following statement late Friday about the bill-signing event in The Villages, in which Democrats were told by a governor's staffer to leave:

Governor Scott did not make, nor was he aware of, any decision regarding who would be allowed to attend the recent event at The Villages.

It's been nearly five years since the once high-flying John Edwards' life was entirely seamless. Finally -- on Friday morning -- the former presidential candidate was indicted on criminal charges by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, N.C. The charges involve an elaborate and secret scheme to misuse more than $900,000 in campaign funds from wealthy donors to cover up his extramarital affair.

Edwards faces six counts --four of illegal campaign contributions, one of conspiracy, and one of false statements. He is set to appear in court in Winston-Salem on Friday afternoon.