AP - Congressional Democrats and the White House worked to resolve their last disputes Monday over terms of a $15 billion bailout for U.S. auto makers — complete with a "car czar" to oversee the industry's reinvention of itself — that's expected to come to a vote as early as Wednesday.
AP - A fighter jet returning to a Marine base after a training exercise crashed in flames in a San Diego neighborhood Monday, killing three people on the ground, leaving one missing and destroying two homes.
AP - Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis and hurt dozens more in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said Monday in announcing charges with mandatory 30-year prison terms against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards.
Sixty years after Polaroid introduced its first instant camera, the company's iconic film is disappearing from stores. Polaroid stopped making the film earlier this year, leaving its cult of fans to cherish their white-bordered snapshots, and their memories.
At least two people were killed today when a military fighter jet crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego, California. Two other people are missing. The pilot ejected before the crash and is hospitalized. The F/A-18 jet was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar when it went down.
Five detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they want to confess to conspiracy charges for planning the September 11, 2001, attacks, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Monday.