Up to 1.4 million U.S. women should get annual MRIs as well as mammograms, the American Cancer Society advises in new guidelines. Women with an unusually high risk of developing breast cancer are the prime targets.
President Bush on Wednesday accused congressional Democrats of setting a deadline for a U.S. pullout that would have disastrous repercussions. As the Senate resumed debate Wednesday on a bill containing a spring 2008 timetable for bringing American troops home, Bush argued again that such a step would result in a needless delay of funds for troops.
Gray smoke billowed from a 45-story office building in downtown Chicago on Wednesday. The smoke came from an equipment fire on the building’s rooftop and posed no danger to occupants, authorities said.
A key piece of evidence in the case against alleged terrorism operative Jose Padilla was brought to the CIA in Afghanistan by a man who said he found the document in an al-Qaida safe house, according to new court filings. The Afghan man, unknown to the CIA at the time, simply drove up to the agency’s installation in Kandahar in an extended-cab pickup truck containing “stacks of papers and other office materials” found in the house occupied by a group of Arabs.
A day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns held more than 30 youngsters and teachers hostage on a bus Wednesday in Manila, Philippines. The owner then freed them after a 10-hour standoff that he used to denounce corruption and demand better lives for impoverished children.
