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The editor of USA Today retired Tuesday in the wake of a scandal involving the paper's former star foreign correspondent, Jack Kelley. Terence Smith discusses the scandal with USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page and Geneva Overholser, a professor…

More than 1,000 people came to the small mountain town of Dubois, Wyo., to pay respects for native son and Marine Private First Class Chance Phelps, who was killed recently in Iraq. Spencer Michels reports on the effects of a…

The Pentagon announced Thursday that 21,000 U.S. soldiers who were supposed to leave Iraq in a few weeks after a year-long tour of duty must stay there for three additional months. Ray Suarez provides a report.

The U.S. government has launched Al Hurra, a new Arab-language satellite television channel broadcast to 22 Middle Eastern countries from studios just a few miles outside the Washington beltway. Terence Smith looks at Al Hurra - Washington's latest media outreach…

Margaret Warner gets media perspectives from around the country on the Bush administration's responses to security concerns in Iraq, the decision to extend some U.S. troop deployments there and other developments from four editorial page editors.