Some of the Iraqi national police officers who joined U.S. troops on patrols last week advertised their Shiite sympathies or warned residents to hide their weapons.
Men with prostate cancer in its earliest stage have a tough choice: Treat the disease, even though it may never progress to be a health threat, or wait and monitor it for signs that it's spreading. Despite a low risk of spread and the potential unpleasantness of surgery, radiation therapy, or chemo, a new study finds that only a small fraction of eligible men opt for so-called watchful waiting.
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ridiculed Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday for saying Britain's decision to pull troops from Iraq is a good sign that fits with the strategy for stabilizing the country.
AP - In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.
AP - Brushing aside criticism from the White House, Senate Democrats said Friday their next challenge to President Bush's Iraq war policy would require the gradual withdrawal of U.S. combat troops beginning within 120 days.
A 13-year-old boy snatched at gunpoint Friday was driven to a remote location outside Tampa, Florida, and left bound, but managed to free himself, authorities said. After getting free, Clay Moore found a farm worker, whose cell phone he used to call his mom, Sheriff Charlie Wells said. Asked about the kidnapper's motive, Wells said: "It all seems evil to me, no matter what he was plotting."
Details are emerging about how Democrats hope to narrow the 2002 war authorization and limit the military's role in Iraq. A draft resolution will call for combat forces to be removed from Iraq by March 2008 and for remaining forces to be there only for counterterrorism operations and for training Iraqi forces, according to sources. Whether Congress can impose such restriction will be fiercely argued.
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