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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates hold a day of talks with Arab officials in Egypt and Saudi Arabia to seek support on Iraq and try to revive the Mideast peace process.

Following overnight negotiations, the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. met Tuesday afternoon and approved Murdoch's bid to purchase Dow Jones & Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal. The deal is valued at $5 billion.

President Bush said Monday that, with the right intelligence, the U.S. and Pakistani governments could take out al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan. Bush is at Camp David, where he is meeting with Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

There has not been any contact with the six trapped coal miners in southern Utah. The effort to free them is in its second day. There's no shortage of hope or determination among the hundreds of rescuers who have converged near the town of Huntington.

Jose Pomales has a solid job and has lived in his Boston home for 8 years. He refinanced a couple of years ago and now could be part of what economists predict will be the biggest wave of foreclosures yet.

Chinese and Olympic officials are set to mark a year-long countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, which begins on 08/08/08. China wants to spotlight its international prominence, but concerns remain about its pollution, traffic, and food safety.

San Francisco celebrates Barry Bonds Day in the wake of the slugger's Tuesday night home run, which broke the career home-run record set by Hank Aaron in 1974.

The federal minimum wage goes up 70 cents to $5.85 an hour. More than a million workers will make around $1,500 a year more than they would have without the increase. It is the first increase in a decade.

President Bush in a speech in Charleston, S.C., defended the Iraq war, saying that it's linked to the broader battle against al-Qaida. The President cited newly declassified intelligence in his response to criticism of the war.

A massive span of Minneapolis' I-35 West bridge fell into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour Wednesday, carrying many vehicles into the water. At least four people died and 30 remain missing. Why the bridge gave way is a mystery.