As the war between Israel and Hezbollah continued, four unarmed U.N. observers were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit their observation post near the Israeli border.
George W. Bush did not invent the document known as the presidential signing statement; he inherited it. Franklin Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, and even James Monroe authored the statements, which spell out the president's sometimes controversial interpretation of the very law he's signing. But no president has used signing statements quite like Bush.
JERUSALEM-Thirteen days into the Lebanese-Israeli conflict (or is it war?), the United States finally decided to do something about it. Or did it? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice popped into Beirut for a surprise visit today and then over to Jerusalem before continuing to other parts of the world.
AP - Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold Tuesday and widened their foothold in southern Lebanon, as Israeli bombs killed six people in a south Lebanon town and three U.N. observers in a border outpost with another feared dead.
AP - A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.
AP - A bill that would make it a crime to take a pregnant girl across state lines for an abortion without her parents' knowledge passed the Senate Tuesday, but vast differences with the House version stood between the measure and President Bush's desk.
U.N. says 4 observers killed in bombingIsraeli attack "deliberate," U.N.'s Annan saysIsrael's U.S. envoy outraged by Annan commentNew fighting near village of Bint Jbeil
U.S. suggests force for Lebanon, sources sayTurkish, Egyptian troops could be deployedU.S. ships medical supplies to BeirutIsraeli PM vows to fight on; rockets hit HaifaMore than 400 dead in 14-day-old conflict