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Congress approved a giant $373 billion federal spending bill Thursday for fiscal year 2004 that had been delayed for months by lawmakers concerned with issues ranging from overtime rules to food labeling.

Russia has fought a long civil war against the separation of its republic of Chechnya, but allegations of human-rights abuses are leading Moscow to increasingly transfer control to local authorities. Special correspondent Simon Marks looks at the war and the…

President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq and urged Congress to make his tax cuts permanent in his State of the Union address last night. Kwame Holman gets perspective on how the speech was received by Democratic and Republican…