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Recording Industry Settles with Students in File-Swapping Suit

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday reached settlements with the four students sued for operating music file-swapping networks at three U.S. universities.

President Says Major Battles in Iraq Over, Rebuilding Remains

Major combat operations have ended in Iraq and the American effort has now shifted to rebuilding the war-torn nation's infrastructure and government, President Bush told the nation in a primetime address Thursday night.

U.S. Troops Injured in Grenade Attack on Fallujah Base

Seven U.S. soldiers were wounded early Thursday in a grenade and small arms attack on their base in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where American troops on Tuesday and Wednesday shot at crowds of protestors, killing several Iraqis.

Lessons of War

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told U.S. troops in Qatar on Monday that the conflict in Iraq marked a turning point in the history of warfare. Margaret Warner examines this change with military experts Lucian Truscott IV, James Dunnigan, Winslow Wheeler,…

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U.S. Troops Shoot Iraqi Protesters

U.S. soldiers fired on Iraqis at a demonstration in Fallujah after some crowd members shot at troops, U.S. officers said Tuesday. According to the Red Cross and a local hospital director, troops killed 15 people and wounded some 75 others.

Incident in Iraq

Margaret Warner talks with The New York Times' John Burns about the shooting in Iraq today.

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Coalition, Factions Discuss Iraq's Political Future

More than 200 delegates from Iraq's political and religious factions agreed on a four-week timeline for the selection of an interim government during a U.S.-led conference Monday.

Welcome to the Blogosphere

Web logs, or "blogs," are personal, online journals - and one of the fastest growing trends on the Internet. Terence Smith explores the motivation behind blogging and whether blogs represent the future of journalism.

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Unions Agree to Pay Cuts As American's CEO Resigns

Following the resignation late Thursday of American Airlines chairman and chief executive Donald Carty, flight attendants at the struggling carrier agreed Friday to the wage and benefit concessions that the airline said it needed to avoid bankruptcy.

Iraqi Deputy PM Tariq Aziz, Four Others Taken Into Custody

Tariq Aziz, the influential deputy prime minister and long-time public face of the Saddam Hussein regime, reportedly surrendered in Baghdad Thursday.