The coming end of the baseball season is sad for many but especially for hardball fans in the presidential election world where night broadcasts and box scores provide a little break from their 24-7 routine.
AP - President Bush defended his administration's methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects on Friday, saying both are successful and lawful.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered federal agents on Friday to ride with Blackwater USA escorts of U.S. diplomatic convoys in Baghdad to tighten oversight after a shooting in which private guards are accused of killing 13 Iraqi civilians.
AP - Republican presidential contenders on Friday scolded Congress for extravagant spending of tax dollars, and Rudy Giuliani blamed the issue for GOP losses in last year's elections.
Olympic track champion Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of lying to a federal agent in November 2003 about her use of steroids. "Because of my actions, I am retiring from the sport of track and field, a sport which I deeply love," she said outside the court.
U.S.-led coalition forces launched an airstrike west of Baquba on Friday morning, killing about 25 insurgents after a "heavy firefight" with troops, a U.S. military statement said.
The Democrats' top investigator in Congress reacted angrily Friday to a CNN report that the former Blackwater USA employee accused of killing an Iraqi vice presidential guard was hired by another U.S. contractor weeks later.