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The top commander in Iraq testifed about the status of the year-long "surge," on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings requires a permit for design and safety reasons. The installation is part of Elon Musk's effort to rebrand the social media platform.

The Grammy-winning rapper, who spent this summer topping the charts, previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. But this will be his first Super Bowl as the headliner.

Her colleagues made those remarks after the 2020 presidential election, when Pirro used her platform to amplify baseless claims of election fraud. She is now the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger has been on the job less than six months. He hopes to lead a new chapter at the embattled agency.

A judge blocks Donald Trump's bid to keep the public from seeing what he did Jan. 6. Troops prevent migrants from crossing into Poland from Belarus. Sixteen U.N. staffers in Ethiopia are detained.

2: Comedian BRETT BUTLER had an abusive marriage before getting on stage with her comedy act. She is now the star of the sitcom "Grace Under Fire," one of the top rated shows of the season. Her character is a single mother with three kids, and, like BUTLER, is divorced from an abusive husband.

Author LORENZO CARCATERRA (Car-CA-terra). He is managing editor of the CBS weekly series "Top Cops." He's written a memoir, "A Safe Place," (Villard Books) about growing up the son of a violent, loving, murderous, and generous father. They lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s. Lorenzo found out at the age of 14 that his father had murdered his first wife when she threatened to leave him. REBROADCAST. ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including a Ukrainian student welcoming President Clinton to the country; resident Clinton speaking about post Cold-War relations; Red Cross spokesperson ary McAndrew and flood victim Alice Henderson on the flood waters in and around ew Orleans, Lousiana; Representative Rosa Delauro (D-CT) on Bush's decision to top supporting the NRA; U.S. Attorney Pat Ryan on the charges against Terry ichols; Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Pete Domenici (R-NM) on alancing the Federal budget; and Vice President Al Gore criticizing the epublican medicare proposal.

Apart from its better-known roles in bluegrass and Dixieland, the banjo was once a sought-after status symbol in late 19th-century America. Young ladies learned to play parlor music on the banjo; there were banjo societies and banjo virtuosi; and manufacturers fought wars over who could make the fanciest banjos. On top of that, this was primarily a northern phenomenon. It's chronicled in a new book, America's Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century, by Philip Gura and James Bollman. Paul Brown reports. (7:45) (America's Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century is published by University of North Carolina P