Texas seizure of polygamist-sect kids thrown out

AP - 11 minutes ago

SAN ANGELO, Texas - A Texas appeals court said Thursday that the state had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist sect's ranch, a ruling that could unravel one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.

Senator Robert Byrd, L,  (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and ranking member Sen. Thad Cochran, R, (R-MI) talk with Charles Kieffer, majority staff director, during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington May 15, 2008. The committee met to discuss a supplementary budget bill that would continue to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.    REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque   (UNITED STATES)

Senate passes Iraq war funding bill with add-ons

AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add support for veterans and the unemployed to a bill paying for another year of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

A US House of Representatives committee on Thursday subpoenaed President George W. Bush's former political guru Karl Rove, pictured in January 2008, to testify in a fierce political row over the firing of federal prosecutors.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)

House subpoenas Karl Rove

AP - 50 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed former White House top political adviser Karl Rove to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department.

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