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Biden is delivering his first State of the Union address on Tuesday amid a high-stress period for the nation: a growing fatigue over the pandemic and Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine.

Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards mark their policy differences in the sole vice-presidential debate of 2004. The debate touches on Iraq and domestic policy.

A federal judge upholds the FBI's search of the office of Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat at the center of a bribery investigation. The judge also denied a request to have the materials seized in the May raid returned.

A key Senate committee defies President Bush on the question of how to try suspects in the war on terror. With four Republicans joining the Democrats, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved an alternative to the president's proposed rules.

Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick announces he will leave the State Department to join Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has called Zoellick her "alter ego," praised his six years of service.

The National Security Archive is a repository for intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Its contents include papers related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra affair --and, more recently, to pre-9/11 warnings about Osama bin Laden. It is led by Tom Blanton.

The British army says Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq because of threats from insurgent groups. British officials say the threats would expose him and those around him to a high degree of risk.

A slave labor operation in the brick kilns of China's Shanxi province has been uncovered. For years, boys as young as eight have been working in horrifying conditions. But authorities have just begun to free the workers and make arrests. Boys as young as eight years of age were reportedly sold for about $65 each.

Not all of the Republican presidential candidates competed in the Iowa Republican Party straw poll, so that put special pressure on the one who did: Mitt Romney. This was a significant opportunity for less-prominent rivals to catch up with him.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Baghdad today for a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when a rocket landed about 50 yards from the event. The U.N. chief immediately ducked, but the Iraqi prime minister seemed unfazed.