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Almost halfway into 2008, the three network evening newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007.

Security officials say police seized mayor of city of Amarah along with local council member during sweep Thursday in Maysan province

Spokesman for iraq's Oil Ministry announced it was preparing to award oil contracts to Exxon Mobi, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, France's Total

One suspect accused of teaching bombing techniques to several insurgent groups

A female suicide bomber killed 15 people and injured more than 40 yesterday near a government center in Baquba, iraq. More and more, women are carrying out these acts. But...

Officials from the Iraqi central government and the self-ruled Kurdish region in the north will resume talks this week in Baghdad to try to settle their differences over a proposed new oil law, a Kurdish spokesman said Sunday. Full Story

A female suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Full Story

Is everything spinning out of control?Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism. All of this has some wondering if the world is spinning out of control.Horatio Alger -- twist in your grave.The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the american psyche is under assault. Eroding it is a dour powerlessness that's chipping away at America's sturdy conviction that destiny can be commanded with sheer courage and perseverance.

Roadside bomb attacks and fatalities in iraq are down by almost 90% over the last year, according to Pentagon records and interviews ...