America's new friends [Times photo: James Borchuck] TERMEZ, Uzbekistan -- Somewhere across the river, the war churns on. Boys who collect firewood on the outskirts of this border city can see fighter jets in the sky high above, streaking along the curving banks of the Amu Darya. Farmers, standing beside their wheat and cotton fields at night, have heard the explosions of bombs the Americans are dropping on the Taliban.

Disillusioned Pakistanis abandoning the Taliban
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Here, just across the Khyber Pass from Afghanistan, Pakistani holy warriors are streaming home by the thousands and portraits of Osama bin Laden go unsold.

The Canada report
Airline industry told: Don't expect bailouts

Lawmaker hails from Pinellas pioneers
When the newest member of the Florida delegation wants to return to his roots, he returns to Heritage Park for a tour of his great-great-grandfather's reconstructed house.

Washington notebook
Live from D.C., it's Dick Cheney

Racing to get to game, this guy wreaks havoc at airport
ATLANTA -- In his quest to catch a flight to a college football game, Michael S. Lasseter dashed past an airport security checkpoint and rushed to the gate. He missed the flight, closed the nation's busiest airport and disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of other people.

10 days that turned the Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Huge plumes of smoke billowed into the air above the hilly battle lines, and commanders' radios crackled with urgent messages. It was another day on the northern front outside Mazar-e-Sharif, a Taliban-held city on the windy steppes of northern Afghanistan.

Alliance tightens hold
The return of Afghanistan's former president to Kabul could complicate efforts to form a post-Taliban government.

Picture of terrorists' support starts to take shape
WASHINGTON -- The largest criminal investigation in American history has exposed the rough outlines of at least a half-dozen centers of terrorist support on U.S. soil operating underground before the Sept. 11 attacks, officials say.