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The U.S. Army issued an order yesterday stopping soldiers set to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan in less than three months from retiring or resigning. Ray Suarez gets perspectives on this personnel management move and the current size of the…

Well ahead of the national conventions, the campaigns of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and President George W. Bush have already saturated the airwaves and Internet alike with political advertising. Terence Smith speaks with Brooks Jackson…

A recent rise in gas prices has refueled debate over the long-term use of oil as an affordable energy source. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Paul Roberts, author of a new book titled "The End of Oil," and Daniel Yergin,…

Ray Suarez speaks with Darryl Jenkins, visiting professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Betsy O'Rourke, vice president of marketing at the Travel Industry Association of America about the effects of rising gas prices, low-cost air fare, and heightened security alerts…

The U.S. military and a militia led by Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed to withdraw their forces from the city of Najaf. Ray Suarez discusses the truce with New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins in Baghdad.