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It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it will be months before Iraqi army units are ready to operate on their own.

Singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor's new CD is Begin to Hope. The Russian emigre, who came to the United States when she was 9, says her songs aren't about herself and likens writing songs to writing fiction.

Being a judge is "a lot harder than I thought it would be," Supreme Court nominee John Roberts told Wake Forest University students in a speech delivered last Feb. 25. The speech offers hints that Roberts may not be as ideologically rigid as some opponents have suggested.

For more on the new Hispanic census numbers, Robert Siegel talks with Jeffrey Passel, senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center. The latest numbers put the Hispanic population in the U.S. at about 41.3 million people. One-in-five kids under the age of five is now Hispanic.

Americans are highly critical of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. And for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks, the public thinks the president should focus more on domestic policy than on the war on terrorism.

As the 10th anniversary of his record-breaking streak approaches, retired Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. talks about baseball's steroids scandal, the sad state of sportsmanship and his life off the field.

Bolero is perhaps best known from the 1979 movie 10 soundtrack. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece, music commentator Miles Hoffman says.

The summer solstice officially begins at 5:13 a.m. Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, according to the National Weather Service.

The company temporarily banned parties in August 2020 to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The Supreme Court has curtailed the EPA's ability to regulate power plants. What does it mean for future environmental policy?