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Top Illinois lawmakers say they'd like to call the legislature into session for a special election to pick President-elect Barack Obama's Senate replacement. They don't want to leave that job to Gov. Rod Blagojevich who's accused by federal prosecutors of trying to sell the seat. The governor and the president-elect are not personally close, but they have worked closely together over the years.

The deadline for the withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities was Tuesday. Col. Peter Mansoor (retd.) says the withdrawal is necessary, but violence will still plague Iraq for years to come.

For San Francisco motorists, four dollars for a gallon of unleaded self-service regular is about to become the norm.

President Bush renews his vow to veto any spending bill for the war in Iraq that attempts to set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. combat troops. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that if the timetable fails, he will move to cut off funding for the war by March 31 of next year.

Elections workers are counting votes cast in Thursday's Afghan presidential election. Early reports suggest voting in the south's largest city, Kandahar, was light. Hardin Lang, an election observer in Kandahar, says that starting at about 3 a.m., gunfire, rocket fire and mortar fire could be heard, adding to an overall sense of tension in the area.

We look at the latest out of India, where monsoon rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides.

In his new book, the New York Times columnist explores how the U.S. fell from industrial, political and academic glory after the Cold War. "Just when we needed to be lacing up our shoes and running faster, we put our feet up," he says.

Leaders in the House and the Senate paused from the race to avert a government shutdown to remember Feinstein, the California Democrat who was longest-serving woman to ever sit in the U.S. Senate.

This year's United Nations climate summit is being held in the petroleum-dependent United Arab Emirates. Delegates began by approving a landmark fund to pay for climate losses.

Scientists say two separate brain circuits control how much salt we consume.