President Obama held a final session with top aides on whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and plans to announce his decision within days, the White House said.
The former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer and was later convicted of federal bribery charges is sentenced to 13 years in prison.
President Barack Obama says he knows gay rights activists get impatient but he says this country has made progress and will make more in defending those rights.
The number of deaths involving methadone has jumped nearly sevenfold from 1999 to 2006 — more than from any other opioid analgesic, a new federal report says.
Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief says that the Obama administration's effort in the eight-year-old conflict is "only now beginning."
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