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Militants in Iraq beheaded a South Korean contractor they had held hostage. Ray Suarez discusses this incident with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran in Baghdad.

As the campaign season heats up, independent conservative and liberal groups are running numerous television ads that invoke powerful images, including of the late President Reagan, Halliburton, and the war on terror. Brooks Jackson analyzes these ads from political advocacy…

A suicide car bomb struck a Coalition Provisional Authority convoy in Baghdad, killing 13 people including an American and four other foreign contractors working to rebuild Iraqi power plants. Ray Suarez discusses the latest violence with New York Times reporter…