• U.S. OFFERS PLAN TO END N. KOREA NUKE CRISIS The United States presented a plan to end the North Korea crisis Wednesday, pledging to consider incentives and security assurances while offering the North three months to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
• NADER THREAT TO KERRY COULD GROW THIS WEEKEND The Green Party’s convention this weekend in Milwaukee may be as important to the outcome of the November election as either the Democratic or Republican conventions later this summer. At stake: a potential 22-state boost for Ralph Nader.
• LANDMARK SETTLEMENT FOR WOUNDED OFFICERS A judge on Wednesday approved a landmark $1 million settlement between two New Jersey police officers and the West Virginia store that sold the gun used to shoot them. Both officers were disabled in the 2001 shootings.
• SAUDIS OFFER LIMITED AMNESTY TO MILITANTS Saudi Arabia offered Islamic militants a limited amnesty Wednesday, saying their lives would be spared if they surrendered but they would face the “full might” of state wrath if they did not.
• HYDROGEN CARS READY TO ROLL — FOR A PRICE If you can’t wait five, 10 or 20 years for the much-touted "hydrogen economy," then step right up: Several companies are ready to sell you hydrogen powered sports cars, pickups and even Hummers.
• WOMAN SETTLES 'TOILET PHOBIA' LAWSUIT A South African woman has settled a lawsuit in which she claimed to have developed a phobia about toilets after falling off one at a hotel.
• U.S. OFFICIALS QUESTIONED INTERROGATIONS The Bush administration did not ease its interrogating tactics until after State Department and military officials raised concerns that the tactics could violate the law, White House memos show.
• QUALITY OF NEW JOBS A MATTER OF DEBATE A MoveOn.org political ad, and a furious counteroffensive by President Bush's reelection campaign, are crystallizing a burgeoning election-year debate over the quality of jobs being added to the nation's payrolls.
• ROMNEY URGES BAN ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose state is the only one to recognize gay marriages, urged passage of a constitutional amendment banning same sex unions.
• 9/11: WHO WAS REALLY IN CHARGE? Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11? The commission staff wonders—and remains at odds with both men over alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda ties.
• CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS PRESSES NADER Ralph Nader had a tense, angry meeting Tuesday with black members of Congress and rejected their request that he quit the presidential race.
• Watch the headlines June 23: Negroponte swears in as ambassador to Iraq; Justice Department cracks down on drug trafficking; Saudi Crown Prince offers ultimatum.