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Voters across the West will consider initiatives this November to bar state governments from seizing private property through eminent domain. But opponents are most concerned about the initiatives' "regulatory takings" provision, which would allow compensation for the lost value of land affected by environmental regulations.

The death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi won't eliminate the violence in Iraq overnight, but it sends "a powerful message" that Zarqawi's brand of brutality won't be tolerated, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States says.

Over the past three years, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had emerged as the most feared figure in Iraq. The man reported killed in an air raid Wednesday was the suspected mastermind behind many of the kidnappings, beheadings and bombings that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Republican Barry Loudermilk denies he showed people around the complex before the insurrectionists laid siege. The committee says it has evidence contradicting that denial.

July's presidential election left the nation almost equally divided between a leftist who wants to renegotiate NAFTA to protect farmers, and a conservative who wants to encourage more free trade deals. But treaties alone aren't the only source of Mexico's economic woes.

A decade after the Welfare Reform Act gave states grants to run their own anti-poverty programs, many can cite much progress in moving people from welfare to the workforce. None more than Wyoming. But there are concerns about the working poor.

In the series, Christian Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.

The U.S. military is making a fresh attempt to take control of Ramadi, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab city. Philip Reeves has been on patrol with U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency. The Marines now control the center of the town, but not much else.

The Supreme Court rules that prosecutors may use some recorded 911 emergency calls as courtroom evidence, even if the victim of a crime is not in court for cross-examination.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that regulators may have misinterpreted the federal Clean Water Act when they refused to allow two Michigan men to build on wetlands they own. The 5-4 decision came after debate over whether government can extend protection for wetlands miles away from waterways.