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Six young men were nearly killed by a drug experiment in England earlier this year, and that incident forced British authorities to look at the safety of drug testing.

E.J. Dionne, a columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, talk about the prospects for moderates, incumbents and supporters of President Bush.

Israel says it is delaying the expansion of its ground offensive in southern Lebanon. It's an effort to give the U.N. Security Council more time to come to an agreement on a cease-fire. Renee Montagne talks to Isaac Herzog, a member of Israel's Security Cabinet.

Israel's Security Cabinet approves a plan to greatly expand the ground offensive in south Lebanon against Hezbollah before the international community imposes a cease-fire. The plan calls for a wider push north toward the Litani River to try to weaken Hezbollah’s rocket-launching and ground-fighting capabilities

The Bush administration plans to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the government's warrantless wiretapping program violates the constitution. The judge ordered that the program be stopped, but both sides in the suit have agreed the program can continue pending the outcome of the appeal.

The U.S. Embassy warns U.S. citizens of possible terror attacks in New Delhi and Mumbai in the coming days. An e-mail from the embassy said that the attacks were believed to be planned around India's Independence Day, which falls on Aug. 15, and could be linked to al-Qaida.

Experts worry a devastating wildfire in New Mexico, partly started by a controlled burn that got out of control, may create a backlash against this important forest management tool.

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.

If you want to get into Ukraine by vehicle, you might have to wait hours at the Medyka border, where people sit in a line of cars that stretches for miles and takes hours to move.

There are burials across southern Lebanon, as Lebanese are finally able to recover the bodies of those hastily buried in mass graves during the fighting. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah killed more than 1,200 Lebanese. In all, about 250 bodies are retrieved and reburied Friday, many of them in the southern port city of Tyre.