The new president must tell the Supreme Court by Feb. 20 where he stands on a Bush administration claim of a right to indefinitely detain legal U.S. residents.
AP - Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.
AP - President George W. Bush says any cease-fire in the Mideast must be fully respected, Hamas rocket attacks on Israel stopped and the flow of smuggled weapons into Gaza cut off.
AP - An autopsy is planned for John Travolta's teenage son, who died after apparently hitting his head on the bathtub while the family was vacationing at their home in the Bahamas, authorities said.
Australia declined a request from the Bush administration to resettle detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, the Australian Associated Press agency (AAP) reported Saturday. The country's acting prime minister says none of the detainees met her country's "stringent national security and immigration criteria."
Dozens of friends of John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, arrived Friday in the Bahamas for what was to have been a weekend of relaxation and fun. Instead, it became a time of mourning after the unexpected death of the actors' 16-year-old son. Travolta's attorney told CNN Jett Travolta had a seizure and hit his head at the resort where the family was staying.