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In a breakthrough after two years of talks, North Korea pledged Monday to end its nuclear weapons program and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances. Two experts discuss North Korea's promise to dismantle…

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in Washington for meetings at the U.N. and with President Bush, discusses the latest violence in his country and the possibility of a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.

At least a dozen explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 people. A New York Times reporter based in Iraq talks about the latest casualties and violence in Baghdad.

Sep 04

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Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who steered the high court through groundbreaking legal and political disputes as well as guided it through a docket-full of potentially pivotal and controversial cases in recent court terms, died on Sept. 3, 2005.