San Antonio's Mission San Antonio de Valero, The Alamo.

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As if federal investigations, the City Hall Strippergate scandal and financial chaos weren't bad enough, San Diego now has lost its perch as America's seventh most populous city. Dislodging “America's Finest City” from its five-year ranking is San Antonio, home to the Alamo, the Census Bureau reported in new population estimates released today.

WASHINGTON – In a decision that puts an overhaul of immigration laws in serious doubt, House Republican leaders said yesterday that they would hold summer hearings around the nation on the politically volatile subject before trying to compromise with the Senate on one of President Bush's chief domestic priorities.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two U.S. soldiers missing for three days since their abduction in an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad have been found dead, a military spokesman said yesterday, and a top U.S. commander ordered an investigation into why the men were isolated from a larger force in such a dangerous part of Iraq.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK – Once portals that lured gold-seeking pioneers, the black holes that dot the sun-baked mountainsides of this California desert haunt J.T. Reynolds. The superintendent of Death Valley National Park fears tourists will tumble down the decrepit shafts or vanish into the rocky tunnels that abound in his park's famed Gold Rush-era mines and ghost towns.

Southwest Airlines, the only major U.S. carrier without assigned seats, said yesterday that it plans to use Lindbergh Field as its test site for new ways to board passengers. The tests represent a significant departure from Southwest's hallmark practice of open passenger seating, sometimes described as “first-come, first-served seating” or “cattle car boarding.”