President Bush extended a law that could give some of the thousands of interpreters working for the American military refuge in the US under a special visa program.
With the help of a Washington lawyer, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating issues like how to repay Mrs. Clinton?s campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention.
AP - The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.
AP - Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
In a series of raids, authorities have arrested more than 300 members of prostitution operations and removed 21 juveniles from sex-selling rings, the FBI announced Wednesday. The sweeps were conducted in 16 cities nationwide over the past five days, authorities said. "This is the 21st-century slavery," said one children's advocate.
Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. Reactions to the report broke down along partisan lines.