A White House report will cite satisfactory progress on some benchmarks but will qualify other verdicts by saying it is too early to make final judgments.
Despite its spruced-up look and high-tech improvements, the White House briefing room, which reopens Wednesday morning, isn't returning to its glory days anytime soon.
Over four summers, Akiko Busch, 53, of Unionville, N.Y., swam across nine rivers, including the Hudson and Delaware in New York; the Connecticut in Massachusetts; the Susquehanna, Cheat, and Monongahela in Pennsylvania; the Mississippi and Current in Missouri; and the Ohio in Kentucky. Her crossings began in August 2001, a few weeks before the 9/11 attacks, when she impulsively tackled the Hudson at a half-mile crossing near New Hamburg, N.Y. As she saw the world grow ever more divided, pondered middle age, and encountered fears about the health of America's rivers, the swims took on enough significance for her to pen a book, released July 10, about the experience. U.S. News spoke to Busch about "Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There From Here."
What is eBay, anyway? That is the question investors are asking after the world's largest online auction site announced last month that it was launching its own free classified advertising site in the United States—daring to tread into territory that craigslist has dominated for years.
AP - A new threat assessment from U.S. counterterrorism analysts says that al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001.
AP - The Bush administration says the president's immediate advisers are absolutely immune from having to appear before Congress, but legal scholars say the issue isn't that clear cut.
Al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new U.S. government analysis concludes, according to a senior government official. Despite a campaign of military action, al Qaeda has regained its strength and found safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the report says, according to officials.
The Bush administration is nearing the release of an interim report on 18 benchmarks for the Iraqi government, with fresh signs that some Republican senators are impatient with the White House plan for Iraq.
Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
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