Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal leaders throughout Iraq.
A new report says that the department responsible for collecting billions of dollars from oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands is plagued with ethical lapses.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will go before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, when he is expected to deliver budget amendments to Congress that will substantially increase the president's 2008 war spending to $200 billion from the approximately $150 billion that the administration initially estimated it would need in Iraq and Afghanistan.
AP - Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that Iran's disputed nuclear program is "closed" as a political issue and said Tehran will ignore U.N. Security Council demands and sanctions imposed by "arrogant powers" to curb its nuclear program.
AP - Jurors rejected a defense attorney's argument that the prosecution of a polygamous sect leader was religious persecution, convicting him as an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old follower to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
AP - The House voted Tuesday to expand health insurance for children, but the Democratic-led victory may prove short-lived because the margin was too small to override President Bush's promised veto.
Air traffic controllers were forced to use their cell phones to reroute hundreds of flights Tuesday after the Federal Aviation Administration's Memphis Center lost radar and telephone service for more than two hours, snarling air traffic in the middle of the nation.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to speak before the United Nations on Tuesday, a day after he challenged a university audience to look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."