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Despite some legislative successes, hopes for bipartisanship expressed by the Democratic leaders and President Bush were not realized in the first session of the 110th Congress. Andrea Seabrook speaks with John Bresnahan, Capitol Hill bureau chief of the Politico newspaper and Ross Baker, political science professor at Rutgers University.

Lebanon's two main rival political blocs have been unable to overcome their difference to elect a new president. The political gridlock has gone on for the last year, and the situation has gotten worse in recent months.

For Amir, home is Kabul and in the year 2000 it's a bad time to think of returning because the Taliban has taken control of most of his homeland. The Afghan-born Amir now lives in the U.S. where he has just published his first book. The voice from the past belongs to Rahim Kahn, his father's best friend. Actor Shaun Toub (who also starred in

Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he was racially profiled when he was pulled over by Chicago police last month. Police say Davis swerved over the center line and defend the citation. But, the African-American congressman says he will challenge the $75 ticket.

South Africa's top prosecutor says he has enough evidence for corruption charges against new African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma, which could derail his election as the country's next president. Zuma beat President Thabo Mbeki in a bitter ANC leadership contest Tuesday.

Some presidential front-runners are slipping while some long-shots are looking like contenders. As 2007 closes, the big political stories in the presidential campaign are the unexpected rise of Republican Mike Huckabee and uncertainty about which Democrat will emerge victorious.

Congress this week approved spending that will fund the war in Iraq through the first quarter of next year. Part of the reason the war-funding measure passed is because Democrats concluded that the president was winning the public-relations battle over what it means to support the troops.

Gen. William Kip Ward, the only four-star African-American general in the active military, has been assigned to run the Africa Command. The post is the first devoted exclusively to the African continent. For the program's Wisdom Watch series, Gen. Ward discusses his plans for AFRICOM.

Asha Rose Migiro was selected as deputy security general of the United Nations earlier this year, the second most powerful post in the international organization. Migiro discusses her life growing up in Tanzania and her rise to power as a female in the developing world.

United States Border Patrol agents say they're under assault as they guard a section of the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.