The World
North Korea said it would start up a nuclear reactor that was shut down in 1994 as part of the deal to end its nuclear arms program.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a disputed shrine in Hebron.
A U.N. war crimes tribunal ruled that Jonathan Randal, a former Washington Post reporter, will not have to testify about an interview with a Bosnian Serb official who is accused of ethnic cleansing.
A poll showed that a rising number of South Africans -- 65 percent of whites and 20 percent of blacks -- say there were "positive elements" to apartheid, the brutal system of racial segregation scrapped a decade ago.
An Australian court ruled that mining baron Joseph Gutnick can sue Dow Jones & Co. for libel in his home state of Victoria for an article in Barron's that reached him via the Internet.
Hanur Nagappa, a former state minister in India kidnapped three months ago by notorious bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, was found dead.
Israel said it has vaccinated more than 15,000 soldiers and public health officials against smallpox.
The Bush administration said it would sell weapons to the Algerian military-backed government that is battling Islamic militants.
Five unarmed Palestinians scaling a fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel were shot and killed by Israeli troops.
A U.S. military helicopter crashed in Honduras during a training mission, killing five American soldiers.
The Nation
The Rev. Paul Shanley, a priest accused of 10 counts of child rape, faced a group of protesters as he left a Boston jail after a group of relatives, friends and supporters posted a $300,000 bail.
An Alabama coal mine was cited for 27 safety violations in an accident that killed 13 miners last year.
Smallpox vaccinations will be available in the United States for the first time in three decades, the Bush administration has decided. Military personnel will be the first to be inoculated, and President Bush said he would get the vaccine.
Stephen Friedman, former chairman of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs & Co., was named the Bush administration's top economic adviser.
As part of his faith-based initiatives, President Bush relaxed regulations that prohibited groups that discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion from getting federal grants.
Barbara Morgan, who trained as Christa McAuliffe's backup before the Challenger disaster, is scheduled to become the first teacher in space when she joins a trip to the international space station next year.
Henry Kissinger resigned as chairman of the commission investigating what led up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, after insisting he would not divulge the list of his clients, though families of victims and survivors of the attacks urged him to do so.
William H. Donaldson was named to head the Security and Exchange Commission, and John W. Snow, chairman of CSX Corp., was nominated as the new Treasury secretary.
The Region
The first murder trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad has been set for October and will not be televised, a judge in Prince William County, Va., ruled.
Satrina Roberts, the guardian of 15-year-old Ciara Jobes whose battered body weighed 73 pounds when found by paramedics in their Southeast Baltimore home, was charged with murder.
The Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell invoked the Fifth Amendment at the trial of Dontee D. Stokes, 26, who has said Blackwell molested him a decade ago. Stokes testified he had an out-of-body experience when he shot the priest three times in May. In his testimony, Cardinal William H. Keeler, archbishop of Baltimore, apologized to Stokes.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Baltimore Democrat, was chosen as head of the Congressional Black Caucus.
A Severn man with a previous drunken-driving conviction was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash of an airport limousine on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in January. Three occupants of the vehicle were killed.
Baltimore school officials laid off 396 temporary employees, many of them librarians in schools, as a first step toward closing a $15 million to $20 million budget deficit.
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"I'm not about to resign for something I'm not."
Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, reacting to the clamor for him to step down after comments that appeared to endorse segregation