The Senate today blocked an effort by Democrats to act on a war spending bill that would have required troop withdrawals. A Republican measure also failed.
You don?t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked to know that this ?Beowulf? isn?t your high school teacher?s Old English epic poem.
AP - A cyclone that slammed into the coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 1,100 people, isolating remote towns and villages swamped by a storm surge or hemmed in by piles of debris, aid workers and a Bangladeshi news agency said Friday.
AP - A senior U.S. envoy carried a stern warning Friday to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf from the Bush administration to end emergency rule and phoned one of the military leader's chief critics to underscore Washington's support for free elections.
CNN.com readers say Barry Bonds should face charges. But they also want to know where the feds were before Bonds packed baseball stadiums and became baseball's home run king. "I never liked Barry," A. Gibson writes. "But it seems he was used."
Civil rights leaders are rallying today in Washington, demanding the government crack down on hate crimes. Much of the marchers' frustration stems from the "Jena 6" case in Louisiana. Nooses were hung from an oak tree at a high school and the federal government did not prosecute the three white teens responsible.