- U.S. Occupation forces surround the Iraqi town of Samarra and conduct house to house searches for members of the armed resistance
- Some of Iraq’s neighbors want to take part in criminal proceedings against Saddam Hussein – a trial on Iran’s claims could implicate the U.S. for supplying the chemical weapons materiel Iraq used in the war against Iran in the 1990s
- A lawsuit seeks to stop the federal government from including immigration violations on a national criminal database used by local police agencies
- A San Bruno couple is fighting deportation to Mexico which would strand the family’s four U.S. born children in this country without their parents
- Environmentalists warn about the health consequences of San Joaquin Valley air pollution as officials take actions to delay a required smog clean up plan
- Costa Rica declines to join its Central American neighbors in a free trade agreement with the U.S.