President Bush ended up competing for attention with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who called the American visit an act of imperialism, adding, ?Gringo, go home!?
Advocates of gun rights said the decision raised the prospect of a national re-evaluation of the meaning of the Second Amendment and the rights of gun owners.
This week saw Gen. David Petraeus's first press conference since he took over command of U.S. forces in Iraq, and he began it by hammering home a warning that has been repeatedly emphasized by his predecessors as well: Military force alone will not fix Iraq.
Last Friday, we gave you arguments for why John McCain had either a good or bad week on the campaign trail, depending on who you ask. Today, we'll close out with another multiple-choice item from White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh, this time on whether Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama stole the week.
There were early signs, like when her son, Perry, who is 7, started talking seriously about buying a piano. Or when his friends started organizing sled races, even though temperatures in their northern California neighborhood were climbing into the 60s. But GraceAnn Stewart did not use the word obsession until the day a few weeks ago when Perry asked her to make his school day longer.
AP - The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched another verbal assault on President Bush Friday as he led some 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the U.S. leader a "political cadaver" and blasting his policies as "imperialist."
AP - Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find.
In a landmark legal victory for opponents of gun control, a federal appeals court Friday struck down a District of Columbia ban on keeping handguns in homes as a violation of the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms.