AP - Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's passport file, and the department is investigating whether political or other motives were involved, senior officials said Thursday.
AP - China blanketed restive Tibetan areas Thursday with a huge buildup of troops, turning small towns across a wide swath of western China into armed encampments.
AP - The former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive who hid for years by posing as an ordinary housewife has been released from prison after serving time for trying to bomb police cars, corrections officials said Thursday.
On three occasions since January, Sen. Barack Obama's passport file was looked at in an unauthorized way, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack tells CNN.
Officials in Minnesota have closed a major bridge across the Mississippi River, citing safety concerns, the state's transportation department announced Thursday.