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Congress is closer to a legal standoff with the White House. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected Thursday to give its chairman the power to subpoena White House aides over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. The House Judiciary Committee did the same Wednesday.

After talks with Mexico's President Calderon, President Bush says he will press Democrats and Republicans in Congress to overhaul U.S. immigration law. The president ended his Latin American tour in Mexico, after visiting Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Guatemala.

President Bush made stop two on his five-nation Latin American trip Saturday, meeting with Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez. He visits Colombia on Sunday. But the president couldn't escape questions about abuses of power back home at the FBI.

Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, seeks to ensure another five-year term with a controversial political maneuver. His opposition says the tactic is illegal and unethical.

President Bush is expected to make big promises Tuesday in his State of the Union address about conserving energy and breaking America's oil addiction. But business leaders and environmental groups say the Bush approach isn't likely to be tough enough.

Horror remakes and sequels are still all the rage these days. The latest is

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In the lower Midwest, at least 30 people have died and hundreds of thousands are without power as the result of an ice storm. The span of damage arcs from Texas through Oklahoma, Missouri, and Iowa to Illinois.

President Bush's call for more troops to be sent to Iraq is popular with Republican voters. For the most part, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are on board, too. But there are exceptions.

President Bush's secretaries of State and Defense spent their days defending his new plan in Iraq, first at a White House news conference and then on Capitol Hill. Secretaries Rice and Gates found only minimal support for a greater troop commitment in Congress.