AP - Iran strongly condemned presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton late Wednesday for threatening to attack and "totally obliterate" the country if it uses nuclear weapons.
AP - The nation's spy court approved a record number of requests to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies last year, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
AP - As of Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at least 4,063 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,307 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
Reuters - Wiretaps approved by a secret U.S. court overseeing foreign intelligence rose last year, even as Congress was debating a Bush administration request for more authority to fight terrorism.
AP - A former professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group but has refused to testify in a related investigation has ended a nearly two-month hunger strike, his supporters said Wednesday.
Reuters - Saying 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide every day, a lawyer representing veterans' groups asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the government to provide better mental health care.
AP - A House committee approved legislation Wednesday that would require the Bush administration to certify that North Korea had dismantled its nuclear weapons program before it could be removed from the State Department's list of terror-exporting countries.
Reuters - Fighting in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of
Sadr City made April the deadliest month for Iraqi civilians
since last August and for U.S. troops since last September,
figures obtained on Wednesday showed.
AP - The liberal group MoveOn.org began airing ads Wednesday against Republican presidential candidate John McCain, citing his claim that the American military presence in Iraq could extend to 100 years or more.
AP - Iraqi leaders have been given the latest U.S. evidence of Iranian support for militias inside Iraq, and Baghdad will decide what to do about it, two senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday.