The targeting of the Pakistan Taliban leader showed US willingness to pursue Pakistani priorities. The US may now push for more help in finding Pakistan-based militants who operate in Afghanistan.
Friday, the US Trade Representative will hold a hearing on a US Steelworkers' proposal to cut imports in half. Last year, the US imported about 46 million tires from China.
AP - President Barack Obama predicted Monday that Congress would pass his sweeping health care overhaul this fall as more "sensible and reasoned arguments" prevail. But he said immigration changes, another politically explosive subject, would have to wait until next year.
AP - A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued villager said Monday.
AP - Treacherous Hudson River waters forced divers to suspend their search Monday for two remaining bodies and the wreckage of a small plane that collided over the weekend with a sightseeing helicopter, killing nine people.
Geronimo was a beautiful painted quarter horse. His home was a 10-acre pasture in a rural area of Florida's Miami-Dade County. The horse, his owner says, made many people happy over the years. Recently Geronimo was found tied to a palm tree. He had been butchered. Someone is killing pet horses in South Florida, possibly for their meat.
Divers will try again today to find the two remaining victims from the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River. Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were aboard the two aircraft when they collided shortly before noon Saturday. Seven bodies have been pulled from the river.