AFP - A Denver, Colorado court Tuesday fined Dow Chemical Co. and Boeing Co. a combined 926 million dollars over property damages caused by contamination from a nuclear weapons plant.

AP - As of Monday, June 1, 2008, at least 436 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 24 at 10 a.m. EDT.

AFP - The US military said on Sunday it was still working to regain the public's trust after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal as the future of the 21,000 captives held in Iraq remained in doubt.

AP - As of Saturday, May 31, 2008, at least 436 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday, May 24, at 10 a.m. EDT.

AP - As of Friday, May 30, 2008, at least 436 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday, May 24, at 10 a.m. EDT.

AP - A wildfire consumed more than a square mile and destroyed or damaged a number of homes in a rural southwestern Florida, authorities said Friday.

AFP - Thousands of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq after Friday prayers to denounce a government deal with Washington on US troop levels.

Reuters - A move in the U.S. Congress to expand education benefits for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has hit a snag that veterans groups say they find surprising -- opposition from the Pentagon.

Reuters - The U.S. Army on Thursday said suicides among active duty troops in 2007 had reached the highest level on record, due partly to the stress caused by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP - As of Thursday, May 29, 2008, at least 436 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday, May 24, at 10 a.m. EDT.

AFP - The US Army said 115 soldiers on active duty committed suicide in 2007, the most in one year since the service began keeping records in 1980. Nearly a thousand soldiers attempted suicide.

AP - Firefighters are battling a growing brush fire at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in Southern California.

AFP - The US military announced on Thursday the withdrawal of another 4,000 "surge" troops from Iraq after reporting that violence across the country has hit a four-year low.