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With the days dwindling before its August recess, Congress is trying to move forward on two key national security issues: detainee treatment and government eavesdropping. Hearings are to begin Wednesday in both the House and the Senate on eavesdropping and FISA, the law that normally governs it.

The Senate votes to cut off debate on an immigration overhaul, moving it a step closer to passing the legislation. With a final vote expected late Thursday, the Senate package is sharply different from the House bill, and there are doubts the two can be reconciled.

Last month, Washington accused Moscow of giving military intelligence to Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Now, officials in Moscow say the United States is holding up Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. Deteriorating ties between the White House and the Kremlin in recent months have prompted talk of a new Cold War. Some foreign-policy analysts say that's because Moscow doesn't share Western values -- which Western countries have been slow to understand.

President Bush's outgoing speechwriter says religious references play a key role in the president's dialogue. In that regard, Michael Gerson says, Bush is no different from Presidents Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt.

Dai Vernon was among the most influential magicians of the 20th century, but one trick continued to elude him. His quest to learn its secret led him from one sleazy dive to another. The answer finally came in a little white house in Missouri.

The first lady first tested positive on Aug. 16 and she remained in isolation for five days, undergoing a course of Paxlovid treatment. She tested positive again Wednesday and does not have symptoms.

The House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will present new testimony and evidence at the hearing, according to select committee aides.

In his new book, Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, author and journalist Sam Quinones explores the complexities and contradictions of the immigration debate through true stories of Mexican migration.

The House committee released the full report on its investigation into the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Earlier the panel said it was referring former President Donald Trump for criminal charges.

New polls show plummeting public support for the war in Iraq. This comes as President Bush meets with advisers, military commanders and Iraq's vice president to talk about changing U.S. strategy in Iraq. On Wednesday, Mr. Bush will hold a final Pentagon meeting with departing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Despite word from the White House that a major policy address would come before Christmas, the speech has now been delayed until January.