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On the morning after he asked Congress not to give up on his Iraq plan, President Bush made a quick tour of a biofuel plant in Delaware and spoke about energy, one of his domestic priorities.

It's "Black Friday," when retail stores are said to move into profit for the year. This year, retailers are trying new gimmicks like opening even earlier to try to get consumers to part with their money.

In the midst of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program, journalist Ted Koppel spent three weeks speaking with people around that country. In his new documentary, Iran -- The Most Dangerous Nation, Koppel reports on the deep-rooted distrust between Iran and the United States.

Mighty Mouse was not just a cartoon. Ten years ago, scientists demonstrated that they could increase an animal's muscle mass by manipulating a protein in mice called myostatin. Now drugs that affect myostatin are being hailed as the best hope yet for people with muscle-wasting diseases.

P.W. Botha, who served as South Africa's last hard-line white president, has died at 90. Nicknamed "The Big Crocodile" for his belligerence and temper, Botha was the face of racist South Africa at the height of its anti-apartheid struggle.

In four troubled provinces of Iraq, attacks on U.S. forces are now at an all-time high. Brig. Gen. Dana Pittard, commander of the Iraq Assistance Group which trains and supports the Iraqi army, says the goal of U.S. forces now is to get the violence down to a "manageable" level.

Seven people in the Ivory Coast have died and thousands have become sick because of toxic chemical waste dumped around the capital city of Abidjan. The victims began vomiting and suffering breathing difficulties and migraines after breathing fumes from the waste. Host Debbie Elliott talks to the BBC's James Copnall, who is in Abidjan.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has published a memoir called Enemy Combatant. Begg says he was arrested in Pakistan without ever being charged with a crime, beaten and psychologically tortured at prison camps in Afghanistan and kept in isolation for nearly two years at Guantanamo Bay.

Two propositions on California’s 2006 general election ballot deal with transportation infrastructure. Both opponents and supporters debate the issues behind each proposition.

A federal judge in Detroit says the Bush administration's domestic wiretap program violates both federal law and the Constitution and orders the warrantless suveillance program shut down. The ruling is the first definitive response to a barrage of legal suits. The Justice Department will appeal. In the meantime, both sides in the suit agree to a hold on the order to shut down the program.