A bipartisan commission handed President Bush a rebuke of his current strategy and urged a pullback of American combat brigades over the next 15 months.
Beginning in January, seniors whose income is greater than $80,000 if they're single and $160,000 if they're married will pay a higher premium for Part B of their Medicare coverage, the federal health insurance program for people 65 or older.
"Practicing journalism with strings attached isn't really practicing journalism at all," a group of 18 college newspapers declared yesterday, protesting the University of Southern California's move to block the student paper's editor-in-chief from continuing to serve next semester. In an editorial published first in the Daily Trojan and 17 other papers yesterday, the students condemn USC's administration for censorship that "diminishes the role of student journalists across the nation."
Today will be the fifth day that activists live in oak trees surrounding the site of a stadium to be built on UC-Berkeley's campus, the Daily Californian reports. The activists, including one recent Berkeley alum, told the Californian that they'll stay in the trees despite a statement yesterday from the California Board of Regents vowing to support the new center. Kingman Lim, the recent alum who's been sitting in the oak trees, said the experience was "fine, if a little cold."
AP - President Bush's policy in Iraq "is not working," a high-level commission said Wednesday in a blunt, bleak assessment that called for an urgent diplomatic attempt to stabilize the country and allow withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops by early 2008.
AP - A San Francisco man who got stranded in the snowy wilderness with his family nearly two weeks ago was found dead Wednesday in a mountain creek, authorities said.
The body of a San Francisco man who had walked into the Oregon wilderness to find help for his stranded family was found Wednesday. James Kim, 35, walked into the snowy Oregon mountains Saturday leaving his wife and two young daughters in the family car. They were rescued by searchers on Monday, but he never returned to their car.
Democrats on Wednesday praised a bipartisan report on Iraq as a rebuke of White House policy, while expressing concern that it fails to urge the Baghdad government to pursue a political settlement.