Senate Republicans Wednesday defeated a measure to enforce rest periods between deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan, which would have curbed Bush's ability to sustain current US forces in Iraq.
Iraq?s Ministry of Interior is proposing a reshaping of how American diplomats in Iraq are protected. The U.S. Embassy said today that some convoys had resumed.
AP - The Senate rejected legislation Friday that would have ordered most U.S. troops home from Iraq in nine months, culminating a losing week for Democrats who failed to push through any anti-war proposal.
AP - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said.
AP - Heavy battles punctuated by airstrikes killed 75 suspected Taliban and at least six civilians in Afghanistan's south, while a U.S. official on Friday accused Iran of supplying roadside bomb components to militants to get American soldiers "out of the region."
Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from a red pickup Thursday night, the city's mayor told CNN. "I believe that we've confirmed at least one minor" and one adult were arrested, Mayor Jacques Roy said.
Police combed the Delaware State University campus today for a man who shot two students, leaving a woman in a "potentially life-threatening" condition, a school spokesman said. The university was on lockdown after the shootings.
Central Florida residents were shaken today by a tornado that touched down and severe storms that blew roofs off buildings and knocked down power lines. Twenty houses were uninhabitable and about 30 have damaged roofs and broken windows, Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. John Herrell told The Associated Press.
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