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Iran's president announces that 15 British sailors and marines held since March 23 for allegedly straying into Iran's territorial waters will be freed. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies talks with Steve Inskeep.

At a White House news conference, President Bush covers a variety of subjects. He says Democrats who have declined to pass a war-spending bill satisfactory to the administration are wasting their time.

Opposition leaders in Russia have made waves by organizing unsanctioned demonstrations. The group Other Russia includes a former prime minister, a novelist and chessmaster Garry Kasparov.

The Pentagon transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's wide-ranging confession to plotting terrorist attacks has led many to question whether Mohammed could have been involved in all the plots mentioned.

A near drought of upsets in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship has some people asking, where's the excitement? About the only surprises so far have been Duke's loss to Virginia Commonwealth University and Notre Dame's loss to and Winthrop.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was "extremely upset" by statements his subordinates made as the U.S. attorneys scandal took over the front pages of newspapers, according to Department of Justice e-mails released Monday. The agency turned over some 3,000 pages to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Congressional investigators are sifting through thousands of newly released e-mails linked to the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. The Justice Department released some 3,000 pages of material Monday night.

Congress and the White House ratchet up a confrontation over eight dismissed U.S. attorneys — and how officials will testify in an inquiry of the firings. A House panel has authorized subpoenas. But White House spokesman Tony Snow says that would lead President Bush to withdraw an offer to cooperate.

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.

The rules that dictate what lenders must disclose to borrowers about their mortgage loans vary: The Federal Reserve and HUD each have regulations on disclosure that all lenders must observe, and states have their own regulations. The system works for prime mortgages better than subprime ones, says professor Kurt Eggert.

In a visit to Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers he does not believe that continued weakness in the housing sector will push the economy into a recession.

Artist Joseph Cornell created works out of framed boxes filled with found objects. His work is on display now at an exhibit called "Navigating the Imagination," hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Funding for biomedical research typically comes from the federal government. But federal restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research have prompted several state governments to take matters into their own hands.

Even as U.S. officials insist Washington remains committed to diplomacy with Iran and is not seeking a conflict, analysts and former American intelligence officials are chronicling what they say is an unfolding intelligence war between the two adversaries, which is being waged covertly throughout the Middle East.

The Supreme Court rejects two Bush administration plans — one on global warming, the other on coal-fired power plants. The decisions are the latest in a string of setbacks the administration has suffered in the courts.

Kyle Sampson — former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — testifies before a Senate panel. He says his boss was far more involved in the plan to fire eight federal prosecutors than Gonzales has previously acknowledged.

Condemnation from the United States and other nations may be just what the Iranian president needs to shore up a shaky political position at home.

Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat's memoir Brother, I'm Dying details the complicated emotions surrounding the deaths of her father and uncle — and the birth of her daughter — all in the same year.

Soldiers in Myanmar try to crush dissent by breaking up street gatherings of activists, occupying key Buddhist monasteries and cutting public Internet access, raising concerns of a wider crackdown after at least 10 people were killed this week.

It's the 50th anniversary of the landmark effort to desegregate public schools in Little Rock, Ark. President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division to make sure that black students were allowed to attend Central High.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a highly anticipated speech to the U.N. General Assembly. It may turn out to be another in a long history of controversial addresses to the United Nations by critics of the United States.

General Motors' tentative contact with the United Auto Workers will rid the automaker of some of its biggest costs. The new deal won't level the playing field with foreign competitors, but observers say it gives the company a fighting chance.

A strike may be in the offing at General Motors. Picketing began outside the Detroit headquarters Monday morning after marathon talks failed to produce agreement on a contract by a pre-arranged deadline.

The deadline has passed in contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors. Some of GM's 73,000 workers have begun to strike.

The Blackwater security firm, subject of headlines related to deadly shootings in Iraq, would like to get more business working on natural disasters in the United States. In fact, it already has: its employees provided security to FEMA staff after Hurricane Katrina. But its future plan has made some people edgy.