A small army of presidential candidates, their strategists, staffs, and media entourages is converging on the first-in-the-nation caucus state to celebrate July 4th?and compete for votes at a seemingly endless series of barbecues, ice-cream socials, parades, and speeches.
AP - Just when things looked darkest for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, when prison seemed all but certain, President Bush wiped away the former White House aide's 2 1/2-year sentence in the CIA leak case.
AP - British police focused Tuesday on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London.
AP - Japan's defense minister resigned under an avalanche of criticism Tuesday for suggesting that the United States was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the attacks saved Japan from a Soviet invasion.
A doctor was taken into custody trying to fly out of Australia, becoming the eighth person detained in the failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow, Scotland. A second doctor in Australia is being questioned, according to Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.
President Bush commuted the prison term of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was sentenced to 30 months after his conviction on federal charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
A military judge on Friday rejected the Pentagon's request to reinstate previously dismissed charges against a prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2001, officials said.