U.S. and Iraqi soldiers combed an area east of Baghdad where two Americans and an Iraqi were killed on Monday. Also today, a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb.
AP - The College of Cardinals met Tuesday for a second day to prepare for the election of Pope John Paul II's successor, which will be announced by a ringing of bells in addition to the centuries-old practice of sending up puffs of white smoke.
AP - Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday.
AP - The Bush administration's two top law enforcement officials on Tuesday urged Congress to renew every provision of the anti-terror Patriot Act. FBI Director Robert Mueller also asked lawmakers to expand the bureau's ability to obtain records without first asking a judge.
Vatican officials say it is likely Pope John Paul II will be buried in the grave once occupied by Pope John XXIII in the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica. Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls says the pope will be buried there "unless he left other instructions in the will. ... But we don't know because we haven't read the will yet."