AP - The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come under scrutiny by civilian judges for the first time.
AP - Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
AFP - A suicide attack on a military convoy killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan Friday, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.
AFP - EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal Friday.
Reuters - A suicide attack on a
NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10
civilians and wounded some NATO soldiers, police and a NATO
spokesman said.
Reuters - European Union leaders were set to
call on Friday for a review in October of the impasse over
Ireland's referendum rejection of the EU reform treaty, a draft
final summit statement obtained by Reuters showed.
Reuters - A military
defense lawyer urged a Guantanamo judge to help restore
America's reputation by dropping attempted murder charges
against an Afghan prisoner who was subjected to 14 consecutive
days of sleep deprivation.
Reuters - U.S. telephone companies that took
part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying
program could be shielded from billions of dollars in lawsuits
under a electronic spy bill finalized on Thursday by
congressional and White House negotiators.
Reuters - Eight-cylinder luxury cars
will rumble along Jeddah's highways guzzling cheap Saudi
gasoline as energy powers hold emergency talks in the Red Sea
port this weekend to brake the free-wheeling rise in oil
prices.
Reuters - U.S. officials say Israel carried
out a large military exercise this month that appeared to be a
rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear
facilities, The New York Times reported on Friday.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai is considering pulling out of the June 27
presidential run-off election, a spokesman for his Movement for
Democratic Change said on Friday.
Reuters - Volunteers worked on Friday
to fortify levees strained by the worst Midwest flooding in 15
years as the swollen Mississippi River moved toward an expected
weekend crest after causing huge losses.
AP - Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods' victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory remarkable.
AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said Thursday.
AP - Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl Thursday morning at a south Mississippi hospital, according to a friend of the Spears family. The friend, who asked not to be identified because the family had not yet announced the baby's birth, told The Associated Press that the baby was named Maddie Briann and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.