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The election of Iraq's first parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein is a big step in the country's attempt to redefine itself. Security analyst Anthony Cordesman says its just a beginning.

Faced with a potential government shutdown, the Senate votes to raise the nation's debt limit for the fourth time in five years, to $9 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The debt now stands at more than $8.2 trillion.

Hodge-podge is a word that comes from a rotten pot. It's derived from a term for mixed-up Scottish stew. Hodge-podge is also another in a long line of english reduplications, like the word honky-tonk.

Zacarias Moussaoui offers surprising testimony at the sentencing phase of his trial. The confessed terrorist told the court he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks and fly it into the White House.

At 48, Stewart Selman learned he had a malignant brain tumor. Faced with a grave diagnosis, Selman offered to keep an audio diary of his final year, leaving a record for his family. It took time, his wife says, before she could hear it.

More than a ton of cocaine seized in Kenya in 2004 is still awaiting disposal. Officials there plan to burn the drugs. Andy Bowers of Slate offers this "explainer" about what's involved in burning that much coke.

The most frightening thing the United States could do to Iran, short of attacking it, is to leave Iraq, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. The second most frightening thing for Iran, he says, would be a U.S. success in Iraq.

Several thousand people turn out in New Orleans for a march and rally led by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and others. They want a delay in local elections. Many New Orleans residents remain in far-off cities, displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

From the Western Front trenches of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, soldiers have found comfort in the simple act of gardening. The author of a new book on wartime gardens call them an act of defiance.

For Brig. Gen. Paul Izzo, attending military funerals is all part of a day's work. He has represented the Army at more than two dozen funerals in the past two years. As Kathleen Horan of member station WNYC reports, it's a job that never gets easier.