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For more than a year before they moved in to make arrests, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies tracked the men accused of plotting to attack the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey.

An explosion tore through the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament building Thursday, apparently from a suicide bombing. The Baghdad Convention Center is within the heavily fortified Green Zone. At least eight people, including lawmakers, were killed.

The ruling follows a first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S., adding to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.

President-elect Barack Obama has named a decorated Vietnam veteran as his choice to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. Retired Gen. Eric Shinseki is a former Army chief of staff who was known for criticizing the Bush administration's plans to invade Iraq with too few troops.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was in court Tuesday for a hearing on whether he is aware his lawyer has potential conflicts of interest. Madoff is expected to waive his right to a trial and plead guilty at a hearing Thursday.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologizes following reports that he was caught up in a high-end prostitution ring. Renee Montange talks with Brooke Masters, a senior business reporter with the Financial Times, about the crime-fighting politcian once known as "Mr. Clean." Masters is the author of Spoiling For A Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer.

President Bush urged House lawmakers on Thursday to adopt an intelligence bill that would ease the way for wiretapping suspected terrorists and grant retroactive immunity to telecommunication companies that help the government.

Hoang Hong, founder of the environmental group CHANGE VN, was arrested Wednesday on tax charges, the U.N. says. Human rights experts say Vietnamese officials use the law to target civil society.

With a record number of oil, gas and coal representatives at this year's COP28 climate talks, climate scientists worry industry influence could water down language on fossil fuels.

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.