Gen. David H. Petraeus wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq into next year, but could accept the pullback of an initial brigade beginning in January, officials say.
Unionized technical, clerical, and healthcare workers picketed at the University of Minnesota this week after failing to reach a deal with officials after weeks of negotiations over proposed wage increases, the Minnesota Daily reports.
A two-person antigay protest at the University of Iowa turned bizarre after the two men reportedly blamed the September 11 attacks on homosexuals and said the tornado that struck Iowa City in spring 2006 were caused by abortion clinics in the town, according to the Daily Iowan.
AP - Osama bin Laden will release a new video in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida's media arm announced Thursday.
AP - President Bush on Friday urged Asia-Pacific nations to keep up the anti-terror fight, deploying both military might and democratic ideals to turn the tide against extremists. "Pressure keeps the terrorists on the run, and when on the run, we're safer," he said. "We must be determined, we must be focused and we must not let up."
AP - U.S. forces in Iraq should be reduced significantly, according to a new study on Iraq's security forces that inflamed debate in Congress on how quickly that can happen without hurling the country into chaos.
Rescuers have "four credible leads" in the search for pilot Steve Fossett, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Civil Air Patrol said Thursday. Searchers continue to scour an area the size of Vermont for the 63-year-old adventurist, missing since Monday.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the American people by videotape on the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, a terrorism watch group says. A U.S. intelligence official says the most significant message may be unspoken.
Officials in Central America are bracing for the worst as rescue workers begin reaching areas obliterated by Hurricane Felix. Casualty reports have yet to come in from at least 70 percent of villages along the Nicaraguan coast, and thousands of Miskito indians are unaccounted for in Honduras.
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