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Sen. John McCain and President Bush have found a way to agree on former prisoner of war McCain's anti-torture legislation. The Bush administration initially opposed the amendment, which would ban the use of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment on detainees.

A report in The New York Times Friday says in 2002, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people inside the United States. The surveillance went on for years and was conducted without court approval in order to search for evidence of terrorist activity.

The White House faces renewed criticism after The New York Times reports President Bush signed an order in 2002 that allowed domestic spying. The order authorized the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance on Americans in the United States without court order.

Through the turbulent '60s, the composer was of the musical opinion that what the world needed was "love, sweet love." Approaching 80, he finds himself in a different mood. He talks about At This Time, his new CD.

President Bush says he repeatedly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on some U.S. citizens as an anti-terrorism measure. News of the spying helped block renewal of the USA Patriot Act.

The White House has plans for a bombing campaign that might lead to regime change in Iran, according to an article by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker magazine. The article, "The Iran Plans" quotes sources at the Pentagon. President Bush called the story "wildly speculative."

Demonstrations against a crackdown on illegal immigrants will likely include thousands of undocumented farmworkers in California. A march and rally is scheduled for the center of Bakersfield, Calif.

Sunni Arab demonstrators take to the streets of Baghdad and other cities Friday, protesting alleged fraud in last week's parliamentary elections. Sunni political groups have demanded new elections for Baghdad province and are threatening to boycott the new parliament.

Vermont Country Store employees spend their days reading customer requests for vintage board game, perfumes and other homey items that have long since disappeared from other stores. They get permission to re-create the items as they were and bring them back for another generation of customers. Vermont Public Radio's Lynne McCrea reports.

One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more rural time in American history. In 1919, there were 190,000; now there are fewer than 400 left.