Reuters - U.S. group Applied Materials , Switzerland's Unaxis and investor Texas Pacific Group are interested in parts of BOC Edwards, a unit of British industrial gases firm BOC , a newspaper reported on Monday.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed Thursday to send the California National Guard to the Mexican border, ending a 17-day standoff with the Bush administration, a Schwarzenegger spokesman said.

AP - Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is wounded and vulnerable, and yet the two Democrats vying to unseat him are tearing each other apart in the very nightmare scenario party leaders had feared.