On the first day of a surprise trip to North Korea, Bill Clinton meets with Kim Jong Il and the two reportedly engage in a "wide-ranging exchange of views on matters of common concern." The former president traveled to Pyongyang in an attempt to secure the release of two American journalists who were arrested in March.
Politics Daily: White House Calls Trip 'Solely Private Mission'

Senate Democrats are working to convince enough Republicans to support a $2 billion extension for the popular "cash for clunkers" program. The government deal gives consumers up to $4,500 to trade in their old cars for more fuel-efficient ones.
Politics Daily: Trading Gas Guzzlers for ... Gas Guzzlers?

A bus carrying 20 adult Special Olympics athletes crashes in Wisconsin, seriously injuring the driver and one athlete. The other passengers on the bus were treated at a hospital and released.

A routine building demolition in Turkey becomes a spectacle when the structure, which was supposed to implode, tips end-over-end and lands upside down, narrowly missing a neighboring building.

Authorities searching the frigid Alaskan waters for a 45-year-old woman believed to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship find a body, but have yet to positively identify it. A traveling companion reported Amber Malkuch missing on Monday when the Holland America ship Zaandam was in Glacier Bay National Park.
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