The Coast Guard is now saying there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. The Coast Guard initially reported an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had begun to spread from the site of the fire.

U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees. The group was officially designated a "foreign terrorist organization."

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that history will judge whether the war in Iraq was worth it. In Iraq to mark the formal close of the U.S. combat mission and the departure of the top U.S. war commander, Gates visited troops at Camp Ramadi in western Iraq.

Pat Tillman became the quintessential "All American" when he left behind a lucrative football career to be a Soldier after the 9/11 attacks. His fratricide death, its attempted cover-up and a congressional investigation that found no one culpable are the subject of a documentary, which his mother says should stand as a cautionary tale.