The United States Senate yesterday demanded that President Bush provide a coherent Iraq strategy and passed an amendment calling for “changes to the policy of the United States on Iraq and to require reports on certain matters relating to Iraq."

"It is the sense of the Senate that, in order to succeed in Iraq the Administration needs to explain to Congress and the American people its strategy for the successful completion of the mission in Iraq," read the text of S. Amdt. 2518, which passed by a bipartisan vote of 79-19

“It's not often you see in our legislative halls here in Washington votes of no confidence on an administration," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid after the vote. "Today you saw a vote of no confidence in the BushWashington (CNN) - Eric Cantor will be leaving Congress earlier than expected - the former House majority leader whose primary defeat less than two months ago rocked the Republican Party says he'll resign effective August 18.

Cantor had said after his primary loss that he would step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House on July 31. He announced that he was leaving Congress in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the main newspaper in his Virginia district on Thursday.

Washington (CNN) - Around half the public says that marijuana use should be legal, according to recent national polling.

Forty-eight percent of those questioned in a CBS News survey in early May said that the use of marijuana should be legal, with 47% disagreeing. The poll suggested partisan, gender