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A joint commission of Iraqi and U.S. officials is examining incidents involving the Blackwater security firm, including the deaths of civilians in a melee last week in Baghdad. Prime Minister Maliki is directing harsh rhetoric at the company.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tell a congressional committee about their actions to circumvent a recession as well as halt the recent tide of mortgage foreclosures.

Amazon's annual two-day sale for Prime members is here. Not all deals are as good as they seem, however. It pays to do some research to ensure you're getting the best price.

Civil rights protesters argue Jena, La., school and law enforcement officials are dealing out harsh justice to the African-American teens for a schoolyard fight while overlooking their white counterparts who hung nooses to intimidate the black teens.

Cyclist Floyd Landis has lost his doping case and with it his claim to the 2006 Tour de France title. An arbitration panel upheld the results of a test that showed Landis used synthetic testosterone to fuel his victory. Landis has the right to appeal.

As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks march through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.

American Floyd Landis has been stripped of his 2006 Tour de France championship title for using banned drugs during the race. Runner-up Oscar Pereiro of Spain was pronounced the new winner. It is the first time in the more than 100-year history of the tour that a victory has been revoked by a doping scandal.

Thousands of autoworkers are on picket lines a day after the United Auto Workers union begins a strike against General Motors. The union is taking a bold gamble. A lengthy strike could cost a weakened GM billions.

The military government in Myanmar, formerly Burma, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the nation's two largest cities and once again warned of harsh punishment for protesters. The move came as pro-democracy demonstrations continued, with thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters marched through the streets of Yangon, defying government orders. orders.

Jurors convict Warren Jeffs on charges of accomplice to rape. The leader of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints forced a 14-year-old follower to marry her 19-year-old cousin.