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Thousands of Southern California evacuees are finding shelter at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. The evacuation center is being compared to the shelters set up at the Louisiana Superdome and Houston's Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina hit.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is returning to Washington after an on-the-ground review of federal emergency response to the Southern California wildfires.

Oil prices hit a new high on Friday. As the price climbed to $92 a barrel, analysts says it is possible the price could continue to climb past $100. Soon, the price of gas and home heating oil will follow crude's rise.

Hollywood writers for film and television are picketing at studios in a bid to get a more lucrative deal on royalties from DVDs and Internet programming. Last-minute talks with producers and a federal mediator fell apart late Sunday. It's the first strike since 1988.

A Spanish delivers verdicts for 27 men and one woman charged in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004. Charges range from masterminding the attack to stealing dynamite to building the bombs. They detonated on four commuter trains, killing 191 people.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration will review its financial assistance to Pakistan. The announcement comes one day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule and suspended the nation's constitution.

In Iowa's large cities and small, Republican presidential hopefuls press the flesh, give speeches and host town meetings. Their accelerated campaigning comes less than eight weeks before the first official voting of the 2008 presidential contest happens in Iowa.

Police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad detain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, preventing her from leading a protest march against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of the state of emergency. There are also reports that thousands of Bhutto supporters have been rounded up.

The Anthropocene Working Group is proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker.

At first, Michael Mukasey seemed to be a shoo-in for confirmation as the next attorney general. Then the nomination seemed to unravel. On Friday, it got back on track when two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, said they would vote for Mukasey.