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Karl Rove, President Bush's closest political adviser, is a longtime member of Bush's inner circle. He was nicknamed "the architect" by the president for designing the strategy that twice captured the White House.

Volatile stock activity defines the U.S. market as investors absorb the Federal Reserve's commitment to provide enough cash to underpin a wobbly credit system. The Fed is hoping to quell turmoil on Wall Street created by a credit crunch that set off panic in the United States and abroad.

Newark, N.J., has been successful in reducing other kinds of crimes, but the murder rate continues to rise at a record pace. The murder of three college students has residents asking tough questions about the city's homicide rate.

The Bush administration castigated Congress on Friday for not passing comprehensive immigration legislation and proposed rules that would require employers to fire people whose Social Security numbers don't match that agency's records.

The specter of a credit crunch looms over the world's financial markets, but investors' fears have begun to settle. The European Central Bank pumped more money into the financial system Monday, and investment bank Goldman Sachs put $3 billion into one of its troubled hedge funds.

The Bush administration has imposed new rules for the State Children's Health Insurance Program that state officials say may result in loss of coverage for thousands of kids. Congress has been working to renew the program, which is set to expire at the end of next month.

The mine where three rescuers died trying to rescue six trapped miners will be closed, co-owner Bob Murray tells NPR. He also says that a sixth hole may be drilled in an attempt to find the trapped miners.

President Biden approved Vermont's emergency declaration Tuesday morning as rescue teams in that state braced for more rain and flooding from a storm that left a trail of damage across the Northeast.

An Iranian-American scholar who had been jailed for months in Iran has been freed on bail. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was on the way to the Tehran airport in December when she was seized.

Tribal elders in Afghanistan are still negotiating the release of 23 South Koreans being held by the Taliban. Most of the hostages are in their 20s and 30s. Government troops have surrounded the kidnappers for several days.