1. Paul Ryan Announces Retirement from Congress

2. House Speaker Paul Ryan is not seeking re-election and will retire from Congress after this year, the Wisconsin Republican announced Wednesday. He spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning. Ryan made clear much of this decision was about spending time with his family. Ryan called Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday morning ahead of his announcement. The speaker met with members of his caucus on Wednesday morning and told members he promises to be more than a "Sunday dad" and he cited his family as part of his decision. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, has been in Congress since 1999 and became House speaker in 2015.

3. In Other News
Unlike their counterparts in the Senate, House members who questioned Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's data collection practices actually seemed to know a thing or two about the social media giant. They asked Zuckerberg tough, pointed questions during a five-hour session and got him to admit that Facebook collects data from people who haven't even signed up for it. Zuckerberg said this is done for "security purposes." Overall, though, the press-shy CEO, who apologized again for data-protection lapses, didn't do too much damage to himself during two days of grilling by almost 100 lawmakers.
Pope Francis admits he made "grave errors" and asks for forgiveness for how he handled a sex abuse scandal in Chile. The plea comes in a letter to Chilean bishops in which Francis says he plans to meet "personally" soon with representatives of 64 people interviewed in connection with the scandal involving Bishop Juan Barros. The pope already has apologized for defending Barros, who's accused of covering up for the Rev. Fernando Karadima, whom the Vatican found guilty of child sex abuse. After reading a report detailing the interviews, Francis said he felt "pain and shame."
Some details about the plane crash in Algeria that killed at least 257 people…The military plane went down right after takeoff from an air base near the country's capital of Algiers. It's not clear if there were any survivors. Images of the crash site on Algerian TV showed the plane's tilted fuselage with smoke rising from it. Part of the plane's body detached and could be seen sticking out from a grove of olive trees. The crash is the world's deadliest since 2014, when 298 people were killed when a Malaysian airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine.