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An American submarine surfaced under a Japanese fishing boat yesterday, sinking the smaller craft. Nine Japanese are feared dead. Gwen Ifill talks with Navy Captain Jim Bush and military author Sherry Sontag about what went wrong.

In a continuing war between the Russian government and the nation's only independent national television station, prosecutors yesterday raided a bank owned by Russian media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky. The U.S. State Department cried foul.