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President Bush will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the White House on Friday. The meeting comes amid declining support in U.S. polls for the war and growing calls in Congress for a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Television and radio station owners discuss self-policing measures to head off more regulation from the government. Increasing political pressure to reduce indecency on the airwaves is a major topic at this week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines, has approved the re-nomination of two judges. The vote sets the stage for a showdown in the Senate over whether Democrats have the right to block some of President Bush's judicial nominees with filibusters.

Insurgents attack Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison with rockets and bombs, wounding more than 40 U.S. soldiers. Also in Iraq, the National Assembly met Sunday in the heavily fortified Green Zone to choose a Sunni Muslim as speaker after much delay and criticism.

The Space Shuttle Discovery landed flawlessly early Tuesday at Edwards Air Force base in California. Bad weather forced NASA to divert the shuttle from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins says the mission showed again "how important spaceflight is."

Airline officials in Greece say passengers on a Cypriot jetliner may already have been dead when their plane crashed into a mountainside Sunday. The crash killed all 121 people on board, which makes it the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

A bipartisan deal averts a Senate showdown over judicial nominees that had been expected Tuesday. The agreement was reached by seven senators from each party but does not have the support of either party's leaders.

The House of Representatives votes to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, setting up a possible veto by President Bush. The president has said he opposes research using human embryos. The bill passed by a vote of 238-194, not enough to withstand a veto.

Pentagon officials say a new Army manual on interrogation techniques will prohibit the kind of abuse revealed last year at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The Pentagon also has published interim guidance on the issue for all branches of the service.

The U.S. military issued a report this weekend on the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq. Classified parts of the report were blacked out, but computer users were able to access sensitive information about U.S. military operations in an online version of the report.