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A rescuer testifying at a public hearing into West Virginia's Sago mine disaster admits to mistakenly saying the trapped miners were alive, when in fact the sole survivor had been located. The rescuer nearly broke down while describing finding the dead miners.

Chinese President Hu Jintao is in the United States, and one issue he faces here is human rights. Most U.S. companies in China won't touch the issue, but businessman John Kamm made it a second career. Kamm has spent the last 16 years helping to free scores of Chinese political prisoners.

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Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.

President Bush, back from a visit to Iraq, says violence there will never be eliminated but that a security crackdown and new intelligence on terrorism are contributing to "steady progress."

The new poet laureate of the United States will be introduced Wednesday. The poems of Donald Hall, a New Hampshire native, have been compared to those of Robert Frost. He will succeed Nebraskan Ted Kooser.

A story in Friday's New York Times alleges that U.S. Marines may have destroyed evidence sought by military officials investigating the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians -- including women and children -- in the town of Haditha last November.

President Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to try to help with the infant formula shortage. Suppliers must direct needed ingredients to formula manufacturers before filling other orders.

A Shiite religious ceremony in southern Baghdad is again marred by violence when gunmen open fire on pilgrims, killing 20. The annual event, which drew hundreds of thousands, was disrupted last year when rumors of suicide bombers in the crowds sparked a stampede that killed more than 1,000.

Fierce battles have been raging in Afghanistan recently, making it the country's deadliest summer since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Hundreds of Afghans and scores of soldiers from U.S.-led forces have died.