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Andrew von Eschenbach's nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration is wrapped up in a fight over whether to approve over-the-counter use of the Plan B birth-control pill.

Deadly attacks sweep across Baghdad, killing at least 40 people Tuesday. That includes 20 soldiers whose bus was blown up by a roadside bomb, and 14 people killed by a car bomb in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. North of Baghdad, in the town of Muqdadyia, a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital, killing at least seven people.

Don Gonyea and Renee Montagne read from listeners letters, including praise for the two-part series on life in the U.S. foreign service.

Aeschylus' tragedy The Persians is the first play based not on myth, but on a historical fact: the defeat of the Persian army at the Battle of Salamis. The National Theatre of Greece is performing the play in Greek with English subtitles, at the City Center in New York. This oldest surviving tragedy can, at times, seem surprisingly contemporary.

Delaware State University filed a complaint Wednesday to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division calling for an external investigation of the traffic stop.

For many wheat farmers, a financial loss is the only thing they expect to reap this year. Persistent drought has parched wheat stands in the western parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, places where wheat was once one of the most reliable cash crops.

In Budapest, Hungary, President Bush compares Hungary's struggles under Communist rule to Iraq's recent history. "The desire for liberty is universal," the president said. President Bush has visited several Eastern European capitals to highlight countries that have recently become democracies.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announces a national reconciliation plan that includes amnesty for insurgents and opposition figures who have not been involved in terrorist attacks. Prime Minister Maliki's plan does not include a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

Morehouse College in Atlanta is looking for a site to house the private collection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following a deal that will prevent the papers from being auctioned off.

With a fragile truce holding in south Lebanon, Israel is preparing to pull out more of its forces out as the Lebanese Army and U.N. troops prepare to move south. But it's still not clear how quickly an expanded U.N. force will be in place.