Oct 27 Gas Killed 115 Hostages in Moscow, Doctors Say Russian doctors said Sunday that most of the 117 hostages who died during the military's raid on a Moscow theater were killed by the gas used to incapacitate the Chechen guerrillas holding more than 750 people captive. Continue reading
Oct 26 Russian Forces Storm Theater, End Chechen Siege Using gas and backed by armored personnel carriers, Russian forces stormed a Moscow theater early Saturday morning, killing most of the Chechen guerrillas who had taken some 800 people hostage Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 25 Chechen Rebels Vow "Serious Measures" If Demands Not Met Without evidence of plans to end the war in their homeland, Chechen rebels threatened "serious measures" against the more than 600 people they have been holding hostage in a Moscow theater since Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 25 Sen. Paul Wellstone Killed in Plane Crash Sen. Paul Wellstone, the two-term Democratic senator from Minnesota, was killed Friday when a chartered plane he was aboard crashed as it attempted to land in bad weather in the northern part of the state. Continue reading
Oct 25 The SEC Selects Webster to Head New Accounting Oversight Board In a party-line vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission appointed William H. Webster, former FBI and CIA director, to head a new agency to oversee the troubled accounting industry. Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sen. Wellstone’s Legacy Mark Shields, David Brooks, and the Washington Post's Dan Balz share personal and political reflections on the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who died in a plane crash in Minnesota Friday. Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch End of the Manhunt: D.C. Sniper After an update on the Washington-area sniper story, Ray Suarez speaks with Del Quentin Wilber of The Baltimore Sun and Tom Golden of The New York Times. Continue watching
Oct 24 Police Link Suspects’ Gun to Bullets From Sniper Attacks The law enforcement team investigating the shootings in the Washington, D.C. area confirmed late Thursday that a gun found in the car belonging to two men arrested overnight matches the bullets recovered after 11 of the sniper attacks. Continue reading
Oct 24 Chechen Rebels Hold Hundreds Hostage in Russia A group of some 40 Chechen separatists armed with explosives continued to hold more than 600 people hostage in a Moscow theater in what has become a day-long standoff. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch End of the Manhunt for the D.C. Sniper Reporters from Washington D.C., Alabama and Seattle review how the pieces of the sniper story came together after the arrest of two men in connection with the Washington-area shootings. Continue watching