President Bush extended a law that could give some of the thousands of interpreters working for the American military refuge in the US under a special visa program.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama raised $22 million in May for his presidential campaign, his weakest fundraising month this year, and ended the month with $43 million cash on hand, while former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton sank deeper in debt.
AP - Panicked youths rushed for the exits during a police raid on a Mexico City nightclub on Friday, leaving at least 12 people dead in the crush of bodies, the capital's police chief said.
Twirling in a wheeled plastic disc is unremarkable for most 2-year-olds, but a big achievement for Lakshmi Tatma, a child born with eight limbs who rural villagers believed was a goddess, not a girl, and who underwent a surgery last fall unlike any her doctors had ever performed.
Players on Francis Howell Central High School's football team thought they would be doing their strength training in a weight room this week. But when team members learned that the nearby Missouri community of Winfield needed help battling a swollen Mississippi River, they had no trouble choosing a different sort of workout: filling sandbags.