The narrow approval of the measure tonight sets the stage for a fight between majority Democrats and President Bush, who has said he will veto the bill.
In a striking sign of the political power of global warming, the environmental group League of Conservation Voters purchased television time in South Carolina this week for what the league believes is its first-ever TV ad in the conservative state.
Sen. Sam Brownback, a 2008 GOP presidential candidate, today said that he hopes to move a bipartisan bill calling for the partitioning of Iraq into three states before the Democratic supplemental funding bill for the war goes to the president for his promised veto.
AP - A sharply divided House brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1. The 218-208 vote came as the top U.S. commander in Iraq told lawmakers the country remained gripped by violence but was showing some signs of improvement.
AP - Authorities recovered a body Wednesday night from the shell of a house destroyed by fire after police raided it in search of a man suspected of shooting three New York state troopers, one fatally.
AP - Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday rebuked Republican rival Rudy Giuliani for suggesting that the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008. The former New York mayor did not back down.
Row over allegations that lives were endangered by leaks about major anti-terror operations deepens as Guardian is told that a senior police officer and an aide to home secretary John Reid were involved.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told reporters Wednesday that sectarian murders in Baghdad have been reduced by about one-third since the beginning of the year.
A House panel granted immunity Wednesday to a former Justice Department aide in its probe of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, while senators authorized a subpoena for the White House's political director.