AFP - The Pentagon said Wednesday it is recruiting government public health workers to offset a shortage in mental care providers for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental problems.

AFP - The US military's estimate of the number of US troops that will be left in Iraq after all US "surge" brigades are withdrawn is now 142,000, up from 140,000, a senior US military official said Thursday.

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

AFP - The Defense Department's procurement system is failing to deliver US troops the weapons they need while running up nearly 300 billion dollars in cost overruns, a government auditor warned Tuesday.

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.