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The Department of Veterans Affairs has set up an emergency call center for veterans who think their personal data may have been exposed after a burglary earlier this month. The Social Security numbers and birth dates of about 26.5 million veterans were stolen from a VA employee’s home. Veterans' organizations are calling for an investigation.

On this day 25 years ago, a cable channel called Music Television debuted, broadcasting "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles as its first video. The Buggles pretty much disappeared, but MTV became a behemoth. Today, the corporation owns more than 50 channels in 28 languages and 168 countries.

Sarah Harmer's music used to be categorized as alt-rock, but recently she has turned her signature intelligent songwriting to her country and bluegrass roots. Her latest album, I'm A Mountain, is a throwback to the back-porch folk album that she recorded for her father in 1999.

Iraq now has a constitutionally backed national unity government, with a new prime minister and Cabinet. But crucial -- and contentious -- defense and interior ministries are still being manned by caretakers.

A Federal Reserve panel leaves the federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25 percent -- a move that temporarily halts more than two years of incremental rate hikes.

Eleven people die in an Israeli attack on a bridge linking Lebanon to Syria in the country's north. Meanwhile, fierce fighting between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli soldiers centered on the town of Marjayoun in Lebanon's south.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic dies in his jail cell at The Hague, where he was on trial for war crimes. U.N. officials say Milosevic, who stirred bloody wars in the Balkans and was accused of ethnic cleansing, died of natural causes.

Israeli planes have blasted the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza City. Israel is intensifying pressure on Islamic militants to order the release of a captured soldier. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel's offensive in Gaza was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government.

The theory began in white supremacist circles and has slowly integrated into the mainstream of Republican politics.

The president visited the supermarket where last weekend's deadly shooting took place, then forcefully denounced white supremacy and the racist "Replacement" theory that inspired the shooter.