A plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. would scale back American forces and focus more on Al Qaeda than on the Taliban, officials said.
AP - Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiations Tuesday, grasping a newly personal role in their historic standoff. He won an awkward, stone-faced handshake but no other apparent progress beyond a promise to talk about more talks.
AP - The government expanded a terrorism warning from transit systems to U.S. stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes as investigators searched for more suspects Tuesday in a possible al-Qaida plot to set off hydrogen-peroxide bombs hidden in backpacks.
AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that he will seek leniency for three American hikers who strayed across the Iranian border, and he urged President Barack Obama to see Iran as a potential friend.
Seydi Burciaga just finished her overnight shift at Sam's Club, where she worked for the past 10 years. She made her way through the pouring rain in her minivan and turned onto her cul-de-sac in suburban Atlanta. She was three-tenths of a mile from home. The mother of two young children never made it.
On a cold morning in February, 10 days after undergoing in vitro fertilization, Carolyn Savage lay in bed at home waiting for the results of her pregnancy test. It was getting late and the call from the fertility clinic should have come already. Finally, her husband, Sean, got the call at work. "The doctor told me in one sentence, 'Carolyn is pregnant, but we transferred the wrong embryos,'" he said.
Investigators who completed their search of the California property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido said initial findings do not connect the couple to the disappearances of two young girls.