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President Bush sends Congress his final budget — a $3.1 trillion proposal for fiscal 2009. The plan purports to balance the budget by 2012, while not counting war costs or another inevitable fix to the alternative minimum tax. Congress is expected to put up a fight — or just wait for the next president.

Many speculated that Americans would be wearied by a two-year presidential campaign. But so far, the country remains hooked on the races — and so are TV news channels.

The Army Surgeon General says he was mistaken when he denied that the Army had told the Veterans Affairs Department not to help injured soldiers at Fort Drum to challenge their disability ratings. Eric Schoomaker says the whole thing was a misunderstanding and it is fine for the VA to help the soldiers.

Last year, thousands of pets died after eating canned pet food tainted with a chemical used for household cleaning. A federal grand jury in Kansas City has indicted three companies for their roles in producing and distributing the tainted pet food.

President Bush sent his $3.1 trillion budget to lawmakers on Monday. The budget includes a deficit of $400 billion, even though spending is essentially frozen on many domestic programs. The plan includes big increases for the Pentagon and homeland security, however.

Two days after Super Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are preparing for a drawn-out, expensive duel that could last months before either one gets enough delegates to claim the nomination. Clinton announced Wednesday that she had loaned her campaign $5 million.

Mitt Romney suspended his campaign for president Thursday, bowing to the mathematical logic that says John McCain will be the nominee of the Republican Party. Romney had poured tens of millions of dollars from his personal fortune into an effort that left him hundreds of delegates behind McCain.

By the end of 2008, the United States will spend three-quarters of a trillion dollars on defense. Adjusted for inflation, the Pentagon's latest budget will be the highest since the end of World War II. Yet, over the past seven years, troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced equipment shortages and lack of proper armor.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey appoints John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to examine whether CIA officers broke the law when they destroyed videotapes of the harsh interrogation methods used by the agency.

White House lawyers are heading to a federal court Friday to ask a judge to hold off on looking into destroyed CIA videotapes of terror suspect interrogations.