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A group of leading Shiite clerics are holding talks to resolve the U.S. standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose anti-American rhetoric touched off a wave of attacks on U.S.-led forces in several Iraqi cities. Al-Sadr's militiamen have withdrawn from police and government buildings they had occupied, but the security situation remains unstable. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

Eric Lander was sworn into office last June, but earlier this week he resigned from his position as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

There are now more than 300 confirmed coronavirus cases on the Central and South Coasts. Ventura County has the most, with 149. Santa Barbara County has…

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the Central and South Coasts is approaching the three thousand mark. We currently stand at 2996 cases.…

Firefighters continue to prevent major growth in a wildfire burning in a wilderness area of the Los Padres National Forest, in Ventura County.The Pine…

The amount of acreage burned by the destructive Thomas brush fire on the South Coast continues to mushroom, reaching 132,000 acres Friday…

A raging brush fire in Ventura County has now burned 10,000 acres of land, and is still growing.The Thomas Fire started off of Highway 150 between Santa…

The death toll from coronavirus has now reached 41 on the Central and South Coasts.Four additional deaths have been reported in Ventura County, bringing…

U.S. forces in Iraq capture a senior biological weapons scientist, known as "Mrs. Anthrax" and the only woman on the U.S. military list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. A U.S.-trained microbiologist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Iraq's biological weapons program after the 1991 Gulf War. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

Latvian Raimonds Tomsons rose above the other 70 contestants.