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A day after he handed his resignation to President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the war in Iraq wasn't going as well as had been planned, echoing President Bush's appraisal about recent progress in the conflict. Rumsfeld declined to give himself a performance grade.

Economist Milton Friedman died today in San Francisco at age 94. Friedman was a Nobel Prize winner and advised several presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

A federal judge orders the Treasury Department to make changes in the way in prints money, so it will be easier for the blind to tell bills apart. The ruling, in response to an American Council of the Blind lawsuit, proposes several options. The Treasury Department has 10 days to appeal.

The Bush administration continues to make a case that Iran is arming groups inside Iraq with sophisticated weaponry used to kill Americans. Who is getting the weapons and are they to blame for a sudden increase in downed U.S. aircraft?

In what NASA is calling a bizarre and sad story, an astronaut is accused of attempted kidnapping and murder. Police say that Lisa Nowak planned to kidnap and kill someone she considered to be a romantic rival for the affection of another astronaut. Nowak, 43, is a married mother of three.

In 2003, Timothy Carney went to Baghdad to run the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. He left after just two months on the job, returning highly critical of the Bush administration's tactics in Iraq. Earlier this year, he was called to return and oversee reconstruction efforts as Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq.

The president laughed and stuck the pea in his nose again. The first time he had done it, he had gotten such a big laugh that he simply had to do it again. After all, it was Christmas Eve! No war, no unemployment. Just a little dinnertime fun for the leader of the free world and his family.

With Hollywood on strike for most of the summer it's shaping up to be a strange year for television. We scoured the streaming sites to find fantastic new releases and great shows worth revisiting.

President Bush calls North Korea's nuclear test a "provocative act" that demands an immediate response from the U.N. Security Council. At the White House Monday, the president also issued a stern warning to North Korea against transferring nuclear technology.

The man believed to be the second in command of al-Qaida in Iraq has been captured. Hamed Farid al-Saeedi is believed to have masterminded countless attacks, including the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samara earlier this year. Iraqi officials say the arrest is a major blow to terrorists in the country.