Huffington Post - Congress addressed a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.

CQPolitics.com - The U.S. government is not properly organized, equipped or funded to meet emerging threats to national security, according to a new report from a congressionally mandated, bipartisan commission.

CQPolitics.com - The House was poised to clear legislation Wednesday that would narrow the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

Reuters - A missing Russian pilot and three rebel commanders were beaten when their U.N. helicopter landed off target in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region earlier this week, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.

AFP - US lawmakers easily approved urgent funding for President Barack Obama's escalation in Afghanistan, despite a huge leak of secret military files that stoked anger at the unpopular war.

AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau is assisting the Defense Department in its criminal investigation into the release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on Afghanistan.