American commanders see the struggle for control of Sadr City, the stronghold of Shiite militias, as an opportunity to shift more responsibility to the Iraqi Army.
As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton supported her husband?s decision to sign into law a bill forcing welfare recipients to work and imposing a five-year limit on cash assistance.
AP - A Marine wanted in the brutal slaying of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape was arrested Thursday night in Mexico after a three-month international manhunt, authorities said.
AP - Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - President Bush's refusal to let two confidants provide information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee told a federal judge Thursday.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, the main suspect in the killing of 20-year-old pregnant Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, has been captured in Mexico, federal authorities say. Laurean said "I loved her," when a Mexican reporter asked if he killed Lauterbach, who had accused him of rape.
As government billboards called on this port city's residents to enjoy Friday's planned leg of the Olympic torch run here, officials here were planning for possible disruptions like those that have occurred in other relay cities.
Nearly 60 men surrounding the temple of a polygamist sect in Texas dropped to their knees, prayed and wept openly -- but never violently resisted -- as law enforcement officers raided the building they hold sacred.