President Bush will tell the nation tonight that 5,700 troops can be pulled out of Iraq by Christmas because of progress in the war, the White House said this afternoon.
The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
San Francisco is gambling that it can provide universal and sensibly managed care to the uninsured for about the amount being spent on their treatment now.
AP - Rejecting calls to leave Iraq, President Bush on Thursday ordered gradual U.S. troop reductions from their highest level of the war and said more forces can come home as progress is made. At the same time, he said Iraq needs "an enduring relationship with America."
AP - The assassination Thursday of the leader of the Sunni Arab revolt against al-Qaida militants dealt a setback to one of the few success stories in U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq, but tribesmen in Anbar province vowed not to be deterred in fighting the terror movement.
AP - Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.
When President Bush speaks to the nation tonight about the Iraq war, one phrase he surely will not use is "Stay the course." But the fundamental question looming over the address on Iraq is this: Regardless of how the president packages this progress report, will it amount to a de facto stay-the-course battle plan?
A massive manhunt is under way after four Miami-Dade County, Florida, police officers were shot today. One of the officers later died, county Mayor Carlos Alvarez said. A police spokesman said: "It was very deliberate to intentionally fire upon... and kill a police officer."
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck today in the Indian Ocean west-northwest of the Sumatran province of Bengkulu, the U.S. Geological Survey said. In the past 24 hours the region has been rocked by heavy seismic activity.
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