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The Senate, convening for a rare Saturday session, approved the huge package by a vote of 72 to 13. President Bush could sign it as early as next week.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France warmly embraced Barack Obama, saying his presidential candidacy presents a bold moment to change the United States’ image around the world.

Some journalists say the American military is making a growing effort to control graphic war images from Iraq.

After a rare Saturday vote in the Senate, the measure now goes to President Bush, who has said he will sign it, perhaps early next week.

President Bush’s move to consider a “time horizon” for Iraq troop withdrawals put John McCain on the defensive.

John McCain’s ascent as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, coupled with President Bush’s low job approval ratings, has put the president on the political sidelines.

John McCain has opposed a timetable for withdrawal and has criticized Barack Obama for suggesting one, but the debate has shifted in recent days as Iraqi officials moved closer to Mr. Obama’s position.

On a housing bill, most House Republicans decided in the end to align with their conservative base.

As Salim Hamdan’s war crimes trial opened, the prosecution had its chance to explain what driving Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, meant.

The political fight over high fuel prices produced little progress as Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to force a vote on legislation.

“The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook,” a book written by Yasmine Hafiz, her younger brother, Imran, and her mother Dilara, aspires to nothing less than bridging a cultural chasm.

Family members of miners killed after a huge collapse at a Utah mine last year expressed outrage after two federal reports showed that the mine had long been dangerous.

On the latest stop of his weeklong trip, Barack Obama is expected to discuss Iran with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.

Calling Zimbabwe’s government illegitimate, President Bush ordered the new sanctions to intensify pressure on President Robert Mugabe and his supporters.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has asked Congress for the authority to shift more than $1 billion in Pentagon spending to increase the ability to provide surveillance to battlefield troops.

John McCain is not having a spectacular week: he has spent as much time reacting to his opponent as pushing his own agenda.

Democrats failed to force the Bush administration to tap the National Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices as Republicans stuck to their demands for a vote on an expansion of offshore drilling.

Detective Bentley was the Dallas police detective who snapped the handcuffs on Lee Harvey Oswald 80 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Congress has hurled vitriol at the IntercontinentalExchange, but its founder views the business as one of the country’s “most regulated commodity exchanges.”

Senator Barack Obama introduced himself as a leader who could summon other nations to join the United States in confronting the world’s next challenges.