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Taliban extremists are making aggressive inroads from tribal areas along the Afghanistan border to towns and villages further inside Pakistan. Though the army says it has the militants on the run, there are doubts about whether Pakistan's armed forces can keep them at bay.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is due to announce a plan this week to stem the rising number of foreclosures, one that includes both lenders and investors. With adjustable-rate mortgages set to jump from 7 percent up to 12 percent, economists estimate upward of 1 million foreclosures.

Javier Bardem and his hair in No Country for Old Men On Wednesday night, I saw the new Coen brothers movie, No Country for Old Men , which opens in area…

No Country for Old Men: Suspense in the West

Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey is now the nation's 81st attorney general, filling a vacancy left when Alberto Gonzales resigned amid questions about his credibility. A bitterly divided Senate voted 53-to-40 to confirm Michael Mukasey late Thursday night.

As tensions escalate on the Turkish-Iraq border, Iraqi Kurds express their sentiment that Turkey's real enemy is not the PKK but an autonomous Kurdish region.

A pre-dawn fight in one Iraqi Shiite village left more than two dozen villagers dead. The U.S. military calls those they killed "criminals" and "terrorists." But witnesses say those who died were all civilians.

They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Prepare for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago. "

Shifting wind patterns prompted a 75,000-acre wildfire in southern San Diego County to focus its destructive energies in new directions today, authorities said.

Scientist Walter Oechell joins us for a discussion of his new book "Global Change: Is the World Beyond Repair?" His research focuses on how climate change is affecting the arctic environment.