The House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would bring all U.S. government contractors in the Iraq war zone under the jurisdiction of American criminal law.
More than a quarter of the visitors to the campaign websites of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Rudy Giuliani were under the age of 25 in the third quarter of 2007, according to data provided to U.S. News by Compete.com, a company that compiles demographic data on Web traffic.
AP - Senate and House Democrats demanded Thursday to see two secret memos that reportedly authorize painful interrogation tactics against terror suspects despite the Bush administration's insistence that it has not violated U.S. anti-torture laws.
AP - Pakistan was thrust into political uncertainty on the eve of presidential elections Friday as the Supreme Court ruled that no winner can be declared until it decides whether President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is an eligible candidate.
AP - Britain's Barclays PLC withdrew a $84 billion offer for ABN Amro Holding NV on Friday, the largest attempted takeover in the history of the financial industry.
Twelve-year-old Jack Herrera returned home in August from a summer camp that included swims in Texas' Lake LBJ. Five days later, he was dead. Jack is one of six people to die this year in the U.S. from a microscopic amoeba. From 1989 until this year, the CDC reported only 24 known infections in the U.S.