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Democrats in Congress are no longer pushing for troop withdrawal timelines as part of an Iraq war funding bill. The emergency war spending bill they intend to pass this week and send to the White House only asks the President to report on how benchmarks for progress in Iraq are being met.

In his new book, former CIA director George Tenet offers his version of Bush administration conversations that preceded the war in Iraq. In an interview, he reiterates that a "historical mindset" about Saddam Hussein led intelligence analysts astray.

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Exactly one month ago, 22-year-old law student Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison for what he wrote on his personal Web site. His case has shed a spotlight on the country's laws concerning online speech.

Speaking on a day that marks four years since the start of the war in Iraq, President Bush says the security crackdown in Baghdad is showing signs of progress. The president asked the American people for patience, saying that success "will take months, not days or weeks."

Ethel Williams lost her home on Pauline Street in the New Orleans' Upper Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina. After the storm, President Bush visited Williams and promised that the federal government would help her rebuild.

Juan Williams talks to the president about Iraq, Iran, bipartisanship, health care, climate change and Hurricane Katrina.

The Interior Department's inspector general has blamed bureaucratic bungling for a mistake which could cost U.S. taxpayers $10 billion in royalties. Officials omitted key language from more than a thousand oil and gas leases signed in the late 1990s.

The FBI reports violent crime rose across the country in the first half of 2006, the second straight annual increase. Particularly disturbing to police officers and those who study crime is the sharp increase in murders and robberies.