The No Child Left Behind Act's due date for renewal this year could be a chance for the Bush administration to make good on its promises of bipartisanship.
The same laws that govern TV dramas, apparently, also apply to the president: When it comes to Nielsen ratings for the State of the Union, viewers prefer the smell of blood.
The jabs thrown at him during the past month's controversy over his latest book--Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid--have been worse even than those hurled during his presidential campaigns, former President Jimmy Carter told an audience at Brandeis University this week. "This is the first time I've ever been called a liar, a bigot, an anti-Semite, a coward and a plagiarist," he said, according to the Justice. "This has hurt me."
AP - The Bush administration plans to ask Congress for $10.6 billion for Afghanistan, a major increase aimed at rebuilding the country and strengthening government security forces still fighting the Taliban five years after the U.S.-led invasion.
AP - A bomb hidden in a box carrying pigeons struck a popular animal market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 13 people and wounding some three dozen, officials and a witness said.
AP - A NATO airstrike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said Friday, while 10 rebel fighters died in a clash with police in the east.
For decades Thomas Moore was certain he would never see justice done for the civil rights era deaths of his brother, Charles, and another man in 1964. Moore today told how he saw a glimmer of hope when a documentary maker got involved and then momentum grew. "I promised him in 2005 at his grave... that I would fight until I die," Moore said today -- at about the time a man once thought to be dead was indicted for his alleged role in the deaths.
Beirut emerged Friday from an overnight curfew imposed after deadly clashes erupted between pro-government and opposition supporters at Beirut Arab University.