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President Bush named Robert Zoellick as the next president of the World Bank. Zoellick was President Bush's first Trade Representative and then the No. 2 official at the State Department. He will replace Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned two weeks ago after a bitter battle over charges of ethical lapses. Zoellick will have to heal a World Bank sharply divided over Wolfowitz's leadership.

President Bush says that he is glad the House has agreed to send him a funding bill for Iraq that does not set a timetable for troop withdrawal. The bill funds the war through September, when members of Congress are hoping to hear reports of political and military progress.

President Bush stiffened economic sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday in a bid to end bloody conflict in the African nation's Darfur region, saying "the United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world."

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is likely to find out Tuesday if he will keep his job. He meets with the bank's board of directors on the heels of a blistering report by a bank investigating committee, which found that Wolfowitz broke bank rules in arranging a pay raise for his girlfriend.

Democrats in Congress are no longer pushing for troop withdrawal timelines as part of an Iraq war funding bill. The emergency war spending bill they intend to pass this week and send to the White House only asks the President to report on how benchmarks for progress in Iraq are being met.

Fire officials say they have more than a third of the fire contained on Catalina Island, and they hope to have it under control by early next week.

The FBI is forming relationships with Muslim Americans to combat homegrown terrorism. John Miller, assistant director of public affairs for the FBI, and Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali discuss their partnership against terrorism.

The U.S. military is reporting that it has in its custody the body of an American soldier, believed to be one of the three missing since May 12. The soldier has not yet been identified. The search for the other missing U.S. soldiers continues, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell tells NPR's Robert Siegel.

The man who traveled to Europe while infected with a drug-resistant strain of TB says health officials gave him the OK to travel. In a television interview, he also apologized to fellow air passengers who he might have exposed to the disease.

Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner has overseen one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America. The turnaround followed three years of economic collapse in Argentina that left more than half the nation in poverty.