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Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen was fired by his team late Wednesday after he apparently violated team rules surrounding random drug tests he missed earlier this year. Meanwhile, another rider has failed a doping test for testosterone.

A special commission appointed by President Bush issued its report Wednesday on improving health care for wounded veterans, particularly those returning from Iraq. And the Senate approved a bill to streamline benefits and increase military pay.

A New Orleans grand jury did not indict Dr. Anna Pou, a physician accused of euthanizing four critically ill hospital patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Last summer, Pou and two nurses were charged with giving the patients lethal injections.

The Bush administration said Monday a new mulitbillion military sales package to Arab countries will help secure Iraq and the Persian Gulf while promoting stability in a Middle East threatened by terrorism.

Chief Justice John Roberts spends the night in a small Maine hospital after suffering a seizure and falling at his vacation home. Cleared after a neurological exam, Roberts, 52, is expected to go home Tuesday.

Four mountain gorillas were shot to death earlier this month in Congo's Virunga National Park. Apparently, their bodies were left as a political statement.

The Federal Reserve slashed the federal funds rate, charged on overnight loans between banks, by one-half a percentage point to 4.75 percent. Wall Street investors were happy. But for average people, the cut doesn't translate into that much money in their pockets.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in elections scheduled for Oct. 6, brushing aside opposition objections and concerns about his waning popularity. Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, has signaled his intension to resign his post as army chief if re-elected.

The streets of Jena, La., overflow with demonstrators rallying around the "Jena Six." Six black teens in the town face criminal charges for their role in the beating of a white student at the local high school last December.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she believes she will be able to stay when she returns to the country from exile next month. She plans to go back despite the lack of a power-sharing agreement with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.