The drawn-out fight for a Democratic presidential nominee is driving left-leaning Texans into the open, infusing them with a sense of relevance for the first time in a generation.
AP - President Bush declined Saturday to repeat promises made by others in his administration that more U.S. troops will return home from Iraq than scheduled before he leaves office.
AP - With her closing arguments made, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention to the mechanics of delivering voters to the polls in a round of primaries Tuesday that could hold the key to the future of her presidential ambitions.
AP - Israeli troops, tanks and aircraft targeted Gaza militants bombarding southern Israel with rockets and mortars Saturday, killing 50 Palestinians in the deadliest day of fighting in Gaza since Hamas seized control in June.
It has been the deadliest day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in more than a year. Israeli troops today went after Gaza militants who bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars. Palestinian sources say 45 people were killed and more than 50 wounded since Friday. Two Israeli soldiers have been killed and seven wounded.
Twenty-nine U.S. troops died in Iraq during February, the third-lowest total of the nearly five-year-old war, according to Pentagon figures. At the same time, Iraq's Interior Ministry said the number of civilian deaths increased 36 percent to 633. But the civilian death toll was lower than last February's.
Prince Harry was welcomed home by his father and brother Saturday, a day after he was quickly withdrawn from serving with the British army in Afghanistan because of the media's disclosure of his deployment there.