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Under fire from their Democratic rivals in Chicago, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama defended their stands on terrorism and corporate influence. The candidates agreed the nation should invest more money in infrastructure and less on the war in Iraq.

An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of last week's Minneapolis bridge collapse. Crews pulled a car out of the Mississippi River, but police said there were no bodies inside the vehicle. At least eight people remain missing.

With rescuers still at least three days away from reaching six trapped coal miners, the mine's owner and the government split sharply over whether an earthquake caused the cave-in and whether the men were engaged in an often-dangerous form of mining.

The Federal Reserve left a key interest rate unchanged as worries about inflation trumped concerns about turbulent financial markets.

A federal appeals court ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved.

The U.S. military tells CBSNews.com that 26 American service members have been killed in action in Iraq in the past week alone, including three soldiers who were killed by a single roadside bomb attack reported today.

President Bush appealed to the Democratic-controlled House for swift passage of legislation that would expand the government's powers to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists.

Divers searching the debris from a deadly interstate bridge collapse faced occasional showers and thunderstorms as their grim work went on. President Bush was to visit the site Saturday where the number of confirmed dead stood at five.

NASA's unmanned Delta rocket carrying the Phoenix Mars Lander blasted off on a 422-mile journey to Mars. The space agency hopes the mission will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planet's Arctic Circle.

A replica of a Revolutionary War submarine, manned by a Brooklyn artist, roused authorities after it was spotted foundering in a security zone near the docked Queen Mary 2. The Coast Guard issued the artist two citations.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that authorities were doing "everything in our power" to track the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak and wipe out the animal illness before it wreaked economic devastation.

Helicopters dropped food to almost two million hungry villagers perched on rooftops in India today, as torrents of water from monsoon rains pushed the death toll in India and neighboring Bangladesh to more than 200, officials said.

Ford Motor Co. said today it is recalling 3.6 million passenger cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans to address concerns about a cruise control switch that has led to previous recalls based on reports of fires.

The attorney for the Northern California surgeon says the charges his client gave a patient excessive drugs to hasten his death so that his organs could be harvested are a "witch hunt."

The Wall Street Journal has reported that News Corp. is poised to win control of Dow Jones & Co., after a key Bancroft family trust changed its mind and decided to accept Rupert Murdoch's $5B offer. A final deal is expected to come later in the day.

Investigators believe a mentally disturbed New York woman suspected of luring her Liberian stepfather to her home and then gagging, handcuffing and castrating him did it to avenge a history of sexual abuse.

Chief Justice John Roberts has been released from a hospital after sustaining a seizure at his Maine vacation home. Earlier, Roberts phoned President Bush and told him he was doing fine, the White House said.

A senior Taliban commander tells CBS News the Afghan government has been trying to "push us to kill all the hostages" to end the crisis. Another militant says the group has been blocked from direct talks with South Korean officials.

The owner of a car dealership outside Atlanta has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises. The man told police he shot the two last week after they kept asking for more pay.

A parked car bomb exploded in a busy shopping street in predominantly Shiite eastern Baghdad today, killing at least four people and wounding 10, police said.