Nation and World
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Pakistan's high court hears case against Musharraf
Sep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Lawyers for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif went to the country's highest court on Tuesday to challenge his deportation, setting up another con...
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Bush to back troop reduction
Sep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush will tell the nation this week he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by as many as 30,000 by next summer, but will conditio...
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Near-tripling of reported deaths and drug reactions
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Reports of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found. The number of deaths a...
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Senate OKs cash to repair bridges
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved $1 billion on Monday to speed repair and replacement of America's crumbling network of bridges, six weeks after the Interstate 35W span...
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30,000 home by next summer
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush doesn't exactly need permission from his commanding general to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. But it never hurts, and he's got it anyway. G...
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The drawdown proposal in detail
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Gen. David Petraeus said Monday he has recommended to President Bush that the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq begin this month with the departure of a Ca...
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Another new video with bin Laden
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden will appear for the second time in a week in a new video to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, presenting the last will...
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Bridges bearing heavy loads
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - More than a half-million overweight trucks are allowed onto the nation's roads and bridges -- an increasingly routine practice that some officials say is putting dangero...
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Sharif sent back into exile
Sep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- After seven years in exile, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's homecoming lasted just four tense hours. "Thank God, we have reached our land," h...
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No war to win if Iraq cannot become a unified countrySep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Before Gen. David Petraeus' report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq's Anbar province to underscore the success of the surge in making so...