The federal appeals court in San Francisco holds a hearing Wednesday about a case involving NSA call logs, which were inadvertently provided to lawyers for a Saudi charity.
Supermarket shelves have grown heavy with beverages, cereals, ice cream, and other products packed with supposedly healthful ingredients. As health-conscious consumers have cut back on sugar-laden soft drinks, for example, vitamin-enhanced beverages such as Glaceau's VitaminWater have filled a growing market for alternatives. Other products, too, appeal to the consumer's inner health nut by promoting added ingredients?antioxidants, vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, and more.
Contrary to his image, Karl Rove isn't a humorless, Darth Vader-like figure hovering perpetually in the shadows. He actually has a sense of humor and a down-to-earth quality that he parlayed into unparalleled influence as President Bush's supreme political strategist and a key adviser in many policy areas, from Social Security to immigration.
AP - Karl Rove, the political mastermind behind President Bush's races for the White House and an adviser with unparalleled influence over the past 6 1/2 turbulent years, announced his resignation Monday, ending a partnership stretching back more than three decades.
AP - Ghostly video images from deep underground showed a tool bag, shards of broken rock, a twisted conveyor belt and dripping water but no signs of life as the arduous search for six missing miners stretched Monday into a second week.
AP - Heavy rains spawned flooding that left "hundreds" dead or missing in North Korea and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, the country's state media reported Tuesday.
Karl Rove, perhaps the most powerful White House aide in recent history, called it quits Monday. One critic called it the symbolic end to George W. Bush's presidency. But others from both sides of the aisle are less certain.