President Bush says when the troops leave Iraq, it will be from a position of strength. The president made a surprise visit to Iraq this morning. He says some troops could go home if security in the Anbar province gets better. The 10-year-old girl wh...
A US negotiator says North Korea has agreed to declare and disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year. He says this is a promising start to improving multi-national relations with the communist country, Six-Party Talks scheduled for...
Republican officials say Idaho Senator Larry Craig will resign from the Senate because of the controversy over his arrest and guilty plea in a men's room sex sting . Craig is expected to make his official announcement Saturday during a press conferen...
1.The Iowa judge who threw out the state's ban on gay marriage has issued a stay on his ruling. The gap beween yesterday's ruling and today's stay gave two men a narrow window of opportunity to legally be married. 2.White House Press Secretary Tony S...
A new report says the Virginia Tech officials could have saved lives if they had quickly warned students that a killer was on the loose , instead it took administrators more than two hours to send a warning e-mail. The blaze that killed two firefigh...
1. Former security guard Richard Jewell has died. Jewell was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing at Atlanta. He was found dead in his Georgia home. The county coroner says he died from natural causes. 2. It was a day of silence and somber...
1. He has a conservative record and now a criminal one. But Larry Craig says his actions were misconstrue d, saying he should not have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges involving lewd conduct in a men's room. A citizen watchdog group wants an inv...
1.President Bush says Washington politics benched Alberto Gonzales. The embattled attorney general is leaving after months of defying calls to resign over charges of misconduct. His last day will be September 17. 2.Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterba...
1. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is striking back against critics in the US. Al-Maliki says Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin need to come to their senses . Both lawmakers have called for al-Maliki's ouster . 2. The Atlanta Fa...
1. Michigan has become the latest target for storms that have been pounding the Midwest. No one was injured when a twister hit here on Friday. But it left plenty of damage behind and residents and officials are just now get ting to it. 2. More than t...