FDA: Avoid Jalapeños from Mexico

The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak — clearing the U.S. crop

California Bans Restaurant Trans Fats

California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from menus

Miss. River Open to Traffic After Spill

The first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic

Sugar Co. Fined $8.7M in Deadly Blast

A Georgia lawmaker says federal officials are proposing $8.7 million in fines against Imperial Sugar for violations at a plant near Savannah where an explosion killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana

Haitian Ex-Strongman Guilty of Fraud

A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million

Swampland

When a Surge Is Not a Surge

McCain bet his entire campaign on that change in strategy and on his assertion of a more sophisticated understanding of the situation in Iraq, and that is the standard that critics are holding him to.

Real Clear Politics

Q & A With Kathleen Parker

Heather Wilhelm reviews Kathleen Parker's new book, Save the Males, and conducts a brief Q&A.;

Summer Entertainment Guide

From the newest tunes to the latest art exhibits, the freshest TV shows to the hottest movies, a survey of the artistic offerings to come in the summer of '08

Tell the governor he just lost my vote.

• CHRISTOPHER EMMETT,
• right before his death by lethal injection. Emmett argued that Virginia's execution methods were unconstitutional and Gov. Tim Kaine declined to intervene