The decision to put Gen. David H. Petraeus in charge of military operations in the Mideast suggests that the Pentagon expects to keep troops in Afghanistan and Iraq for some time to come.
AP - Exuding fresh confidence after her Pennsylvania primary win, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned attention Wednesday to contests in Indiana and North Carolina and pressed her case that she can still win the Democratic presidential nomination despite the odds against her.
AP - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
AP - Delta and Northwest, seeking to combine to create the world's largest airline, posted losses Wednesday totaling $10.5 billion for the first three months of the year due to exorbitant fuel prices and write-downs of their companies' value.
U.S. intelligence officials will tell members of Congress on Thursday that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear facility, according to a source familiar with internal administration discussions on the matter.
A U.S. Navy civilian contractor has been charged with trying to sell personal information about thousands of military personnel and reservists to a person he thought was a foreign spy, the FBI said.