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In a press conference Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards announced that he will continue his bid for the nomination, despite the news that his wife's cancer has relapsed.

Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig said Thursday that he intends to keep his seat until his term ends 15 months from now. A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct stemming from his arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

The FBI is forming relationships with Muslim Americans to combat homegrown terrorism. John Miller, assistant director of public affairs for the FBI, and Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali discuss their partnership against terrorism.

Iran has charged a detained Iranian-American academic with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment. Haleh Esfandiari, 67, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been held since early May.

Oil prices hit a new high on Friday. As the price climbed to $92 a barrel, analysts says it is possible the price could continue to climb past $100. Soon, the price of gas and home heating oil will follow crude's rise.

The Santa Ana winds have died down in Southern California, but wildfires still rage out of control. FEMA Director David Paulison talks about the situation on his way to meet President Bush at the airport in San Diego.

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif says the U.S. must "put its foot down" with President Pervez Musharraf if it is sincere in its support of democracy in Pakistan. He calls the U.S. response so far to Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule "lukewarm" and "disturbing."

French charity workers planned a flight for more than 100 African children who were heading to foster care in Europe. The children were supposedly orphans from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, but United Nations officials found the vast majority are not orphans, and aren't from Darfur.

In the wake of a House committee vote to label as genocide the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. was recalled for consultations. He will be gone for a week or 10 days, a foreign ministry official says.

It is Day One of the first strike by TV and film writers in almost 20 years. Screenwriters in red T-shirts picketed in front of studios in New York and Los Angeles. It's hard to tell how long the strike will go on or what long-term damage it could do to the industry.