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President Bush arrives at the G-8 summit in Germany on Wednesday with a new plan on climate change as leaders of major industrialized countries gather for three days. But a bitter debate over missile defense looms over the talks.

Two congressional committees have issued subpoenas for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor regarding their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

A rocket-propelled grenade slams into the leader's house in Gaza City in an attack Hamas blames on the rival Fatah movement.

Two minarets of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, a key shrine north of Baghdad, were blown up Wednesday. The Iraqi government is blaming al-Qaida and has imposed an indefinite curfew in the capital.

In Beirut, a bomb claimed the lives of an anti-Syrian member of parliament, his son and several others Wednesday. The explosion is the latest in a string of targeted killings stretching to the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri two years ago.

Hamas has taken control of the Gaza Strip, and life is changing for the people who live there.

The Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional in a pair of cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the full opinion.

In Madison, Wis., the air quality was measured at 242 Thursday morning— a "very unhealthy" purple alert rating that many other communities shared, particularly in the Midwest.

Scientists have detected these strange particles from outer space before, but this is the first time they've caught cosmic neutrinos from our own Milky Way

Only a small portion of U.S. colleges have selective admissions, where race-conscious admissions can make a difference in who gets in. But the impacts of banning affirmative action are far wider.