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The former top U.S. administrator in Iraq says the United States deployed too few troops there. L. Paul Bremer said the U.S. military also failed to contain violence and looting. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and retired Maj. Gen. William Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations.

President Bush's three recent Supreme Court nominations reveal the complications and motives involved when politicians choose the nation's top judges, legal observers say. Political science professor David Yalof is an expert on the history and evolution of the Supreme Court nomination process.

Elon Musk has finally acquired Twitter. He fired several top executives immediately and likely has more changes in mind.

A top defense official says Iran could produce enough fissile material for one nuclear bomb in about 12 days.

The new season finds patriarch Logan Roy alone at the top of his media empire, with three of his children trying to take him down.

Three-seed Louisiana State University takes on the favorite Virginia Tech one seeds, which is then followed by a big showdown between two-seed University of Iowa and the top seed defending champions University of South Carolina.

A top FBI agent whose job was to hunt for spies, including Russian spies, turned out to be cozying up with a Russian industrialist.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) and his top aide have been arrested on corruption charges related to filling the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. Robert Grant, Chicago FBI chief, said in Tuesday's press conference, if Illinois "isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor."

Conditions are worsening in Myanmar as hungry survivors wait among the dead for help after a huge cyclone hit the Southeast Asian nation over the weekend. The top U.S. diplomat in the country is predicting that the death toll could rise as high as 100,000, from the official tally of 22,500.

When released, "Babel" instantly topped the New York Times Best Seller list.