AP - Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that "we are succeeding" and said he wouldn't change course — even as the U.S. death toll rose to 4,000 and the war entered its sixth year.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke" last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996. She later characterized the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip."
AP - The remains of two U.S. contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been recovered, the FBI said Monday, weeks after families of several long-missing men gained hope that they might be found alive.
Four U.S. soldiers died Sunday night in a roadside bombing in Iraq, military officials reported, bringing the American toll to 4,000 deaths. The grim milestone comes less than a week after the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.
President Bush today said U.S. deaths in Iraq had "laid the foundations for peace for generations to come," one day after the military announced its 4,000th death since the war started. The Democratic presidential candidates also noted the grim milestone, each calling for an end to the war.