Gen. David H. Petraeus?s recommendations will likely lead to an earlier-than-expected start to troop reductions in Iraq, while deferring decisions on a wider withdrawal.
Americans trust military commanders far more than the Bush administration or Congress to bring the war in Iraq to a successful end, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Fears about addiction and drug crime prevent millions of people from getting morphine, a drug that is cheap, effective and perfectly legal for medical uses in most countries.
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted Sunday night it's time to start pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq as she and her Democratic presidential rivals debated the war on the eve of a much-awaited assessment by U.S. commanding Gen. David Petraeus.
AP - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed in Pakistan Monday, returning from exile to lead a campaign to topple the country's U.S.-allied military ruler who ousted him in a coup eight years ago.
AP - The body of a Brigham Young University student missing for more than a week was found in a canyon Sunday, authorities said, and investigators were trying to determine how she fell to her death.
Questions on immigration dominated a forum for Democratic presidential candidates hosted by Spanish-language TV network Univision. Democrats also pushed for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq ahead of a highly anticipated report on the war. Former Sen. John Edwards said he was concerned the report would be a White House "sales job."
Security around Pakistani airports was tightened Sunday, a day before the expected return from exile of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, police sources said.
Osama bin Laden may be grabbing headlines with a new videotape, but he is "virtually impotent," Frances Townsend, President Bush's national security adviser, said Sunday. But nearly six years since 9/11, Democrats charged the videotape shows Bush took his eye off al Qaeda by invading Iraq.