President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday sent Congress a security plan intended to cut the influence of narcotics traffickers and urged its passage.

Stocks rallied today as investors scooped up shares battered in the bloodletting that followed Congress' failure to pass a $700 billion bank rescue plan. The Dow Jones industrial average added 485 points, according to early tallies, recovering some of the record 777 points lost the day before, CNNMoney.com reports.

The $700 billion economic rescue plan failed in the House of Representatives because people don't think it will do anything for them, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain told CNN's "American Morning."

The $700 billion economic rescue plan failed in the House of Representatives because people don't think it will do anything for them, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain told CNN's "American Morning."

U.S. military forces launched airstrikes on a Pakistani village early Wednesday morning, two Pakistani military sources told CNN.

The federal agency that guarantees bank deposits is asking Congress for temporary authority to raise the limit on the amount of money it insures for individual bank accounts.

Fifty-two people have died in emergency medical flight accidents since the NTSB made safety recommendations in 2006 that have not been implemented. "I don't know what their problem is," said the father of one crash victim. Many of the fatalities involved poor-visibility flights, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are limiting civilian access to night-vision goggles.

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The leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure, sources told CNN.