Official sees a new war at MacDill
TAMPA -- Ten years ago, Paul Wolfowitz was the undersecretary of defense for policy when he visited Central Command's war room, where Operation Desert Storm was being run.

Pakistan to give more aid to hunt
Pakistan reportedly has agreed to cooperate with the CIA and join the U.S. search for Osama bin Laden.

Afghans may vote today on council
KOENIGSWINTER, Germany -- A U.N. envoy whittled down a list of 150 candidates Tuesday for posts in a new interim authority for Afghanistan, seeking to achieve ethnic balance while satisfying the many rival factions.

House mail gets a second look
WASHINGTON -- The House is employing a private contractor to double-check its sanitized mail from the U.S. Postal Service to be sure it is free of anthrax.

U.S. closer to pinpointing bin Laden's likely hideout
The terrorist leader and his top aides are thought to be in the White Mountains south of Jalalabad.

Airstrikes reportedly kill al-Qaida lieutenants
Commanders of anti-Taliban forces say the dead include bin Laden's closest adviser. The U.S. says it can't verify the claims.

Marines extend desert patrols
U.S. forces are looking for targets and threats to the Afghan airstrip they have seized.

Therapeutic cells may be here soon
The head of a company that cloned human cells surprises senators; critics are skeptical.

AMA: Study need for shots
SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Medical Association on Tuesday refused to endorse smallpox vaccinations for all Americans, rejecting calls from doctors who say the disease could be used as a biological weapon.

Bodyguards hustle Arafat to bunker just before strikes
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Bodyguards whisked Yasser Arafat into an underground bunker at the sight of Israeli attack helicopters approaching his compound Tuesday.

Powell voices support for Israeli retaliation
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Secretary of State Colin Powell voiced qualified support Tuesday for Israeli retaliation for terror attacks and said Yasser Arafat must do more to control Palestinian terrorist groups.

Assets of Texas foundation frozen
The group and two other businesses are accused of supporting the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Bush sympathetic, not specific
President Bush offers few specifics on boosting tourism in Florida. But he says a bailout isn't the answer.

Families of the vanished face an unknown future
NEW YORK -- Three months after the World Trade Center attack, victims' families are being forced to face the ghastly possibility that many of the dead were "vaporized," as the medical examiner put it, and may never be identified.