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The Senate passes a spending measure totaling $14 billion more than President Bush said he would accept. But the president has eased his veto threat, waiting to see how a conference committee will handle the gap between the Senate plan and the House's $91.9 billion proposal.

Students at the world's only university for the deaf, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are unhappy that Jane Fernandes was chosen as the school's new president. What lies behind the demonstrations?

After President Evo Morales nationalized Bolivia's natural gas industry, Brazil froze investments in Bolivia's energy sector. Some leaders in the region are wary of Morales' move toward Cuba's Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.

The Israeli airstrike in Qana, Lebanon, this morning has instant political repercussions in Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora cancelled today's scheduled meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and has said there will be no talks until a cease-fire is in place.

Polls open Sunday in Congo for that nation's first democratic elections in more than 40 years. Many hope the vote will help turn the page after decades of dictatorship and civil war.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits the U.S. for talks with President Bush. The U.S.-U.K. relationship is once again under the microscope in the midst of the Israel-Lebanon crisis. Don Gonyea talks to John Prideaux, of the Economist, about criticism in the U.K. that Blair is too close to Bush.

The Senate opens a new debate over stem-cell research, as three bills are under consideration. One would overturn President Bush's restrictions on research. The president is expected to use his veto power for the first time if that bill passes. The other two bills are expected to pass.

Searchers are still looking for victims of a tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Java on Monday, killing more than 300 people. There was no warning, despite efforts across the region to establish a tsunami warning system. John Ydstie speaks to Nate Cooper of the American Red Cross.

A Hezbollah rocket rips the facade off an apartment building in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa as violence continues in the region between Lebanon and Israel. Over the weekend, Hezbollah rockets landed deeper inside Israel than ever before. The death toll since fighting began Wednesday has climbed to more than 190 in Lebanon and 24 in Israel.