Democrats are planning an offensive against the insurance industry, while Republicans are organizing efforts against legislation to overhaul health care.
Since residents returned to the Swat Valley after the army fought the Taliban, there are signs that a new insidious conflict may be afoot and that it could take months to play out.
AP - Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military.
AP - An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold — a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly detained.
AP - The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.
The music isn't new, but the discovery that a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "almost certainly" composed it is a stunning revelation. The director of the International Mozarteum Foundation's research department in Salzburg, Austria believes the two compositions -- a concerto in G and a prelude in G -- actually were composed by Mozart before he was old enough to write music, and that Mozart's father, Leopold, transcribed them.
Katherine Jackson's legal battle for some control of her son's estate returns to court Monday in front of the same judge who is expected to award her permanent guardianship of Michael Jackson's children. Katherine Jackson's lawyers filed a petition last week accusing the men who now control the estate of being "intent on keeping her in the dark" about deals they've made or are negotiating.
The remains of the first American shot down in the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been identified, according to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The announcement ends more than 18 years of speculation about whether U.S. Navy Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher may have survived the crash and been held captive, or died in captivity in the ensuing years.
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