The White House released an updated version of its anti-terrorism strategy and the Democrats countered with a list of G.O.P. shortcomings on the issue.
This holiday-shortened week should be a quiet one for Wall Street. Appropriately, Labor Day week will be highlighted by news that affects American workers, including a key layoff report.
Preliminary drilling tests of a deep-water well in the Gulf of Mexico indicate that the site could boost U.S. oil and natural gas reserves by 50 percent. The Jack 2 well was drilled by San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron, along with Devon Energy of Oklahoma City and Norway's Statoil.
Smokers today inhale more nicotine per cigarette than they did six years ago. That's the finding issued this week by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which requires manufacturers selling cigarettes in the state to report on nicotine content annually. (Utah and Texas are the only other states to collect such data each year.)
AP - Quoting repeatedly from Osama bin Laden, President Bush said Tuesday that pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq would fulfill the terrorist leader's wishes and propel him into a more powerful global threat in the mold of Adolf Hitler.
AP - Felipe Calderon was declared president-elect Tuesday after two months of uncertainty, but his ability to rule effectively remained in doubt with rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowing to lead a parallel leftist government from the streets.
Chevron and its partners have successfully extracted oil from a test well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, an achievement that could be the biggest breakthrough in domestic oil supplies since the opening of the Alaskan pipeline. But experts caution relief at the pump from the breakthrough is many years away.
Videotape of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin shows him pulling a deadly stingray barb from his chest just before he died. Irwin's manager John Stainton said Irwin managed to pull out the stinger, but it was too late... the poison had already entered his body. Irwin went into cardiac arrest moments later, news reports said.