President Bush deflected a request by Israel last year for help in an attack on Iran?s main nuclear site and told the Israelis about new covert action against Iran.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama wants more transparency and strict guidelines for using the second $350 billion of the bailout fund Congress approved last fall to stabilize the nation's financial system.
AP - Congress is considering whether to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness in an early showdown that threatens to derail pledges by Senate leaders to work cooperatively as a new administration takes office.
President Bush rejected three requests in 2008 for permission and aid for a potential airstrike inside Iran, according to a report in the New York Times. Israel wanted specialized bunker-busting bombs, equipment to help refuel planes making flights into Iran, and permission to fly over Iraq to reach the site of Iran's only known uranium enrichment plant, according to the report. .
A rescue operation is underway in eastern Indonesia on Sunday after a passenger ferry capsized with about 250 people on board, the rescue chief told CNN.
Videos purportedly shot by Britain's Prince Harry and including offensive language prompted an official apology Saturday from the prince and the royal family. In the videos shot while he was on military duty in 2006, Prince Harry is heard calling one of his fellow soldiers a "Paki" and referring to another as a "raghead."