WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan Wednesday evening - two days after the House failed to pass it, leaders from both parties announced late Tuesday.

In a surprising and potentially risky move, the Senate is adding an enhanced version of the failed bill to an existing revenue bill that the House also rejected Monday.

The bailout plan has new provisions, including a hike to the FDIC insurance cap from $100,000 to $250,000.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan Wednesday evening - two days after the House failed to pass it.

The bill adds provisions - include raising the FDIC insurance cap from $100,000 to $250,000 - and will be attached to an existing revenue bill that the House also rejected Monday, according to several

The vote is scheduled for after sundown, in observance of the Jewish holiday. Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democratic nominee Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden confirmed that they would be present for the vote.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion bank rescue plan Wednesday evening - two days after the House failed to pass it.

MEXICO CITY (CNN) - President Felipe Calderon sent Congress a security plan Tuesday intended to cut the influence of narcotraffickers and urged its passage.

The plan would better coordinate federal and local police, seek to root out corruption and establish bases "so we are all integrated into a system of national public security," he said.

The plan would establish police processes for investigating crime that would safeguard respect for the law and human rights and would increase the penalty for selling drugs to minors, he said.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Senate may be ready to give approval this week to a nuclear trade deal with India that the Bush administration has been pushing Congress to wrap up.

The House of Representatives gave its OK to the bill Saturday and now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has predicted the Senate could vote as early as Wednesday.

But the vote is not a certainty, thanks to a rapidly approaching congressional adjournment and complicated Senate rules. At least one senator, remaining anonymous under parliamentary rules, has been blocking a vote. And there must be agreement to remove a rare requirement that congressional approval must be after the Senate is in session for 30 days, an impossible-to-meet clause as Congress races to go on the campaign trail for the November election.
–From CNN's Charley Keyes

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) - Two months after resolving the most contentious crisis of her nascent presidency, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is again being challenged by Argentina's powerful farming sector.

Argentine agricultural leaders on Tuesday announced plans to strike this week in protest against rising costs throughout the country.

Argentine Rural Society President Hugo Biolcati told reporters farmers will not sell grains from Friday until Wednesday.

"The situation has gotten worse recently for farmers," Biolcati said. "The agriculture secretary knows the situation that we are facing, and didn't offer any sign of wanting to move talks forward... that is why we have decided to protest again."

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) - Federal authorities will conduct an investigation into the shootings of unarmed civilians, allegedly by seven police officers, on a New Orleans bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, officials said Tuesday.

In August, a judge dismissed state charges against the seven, six of whom are still police officers.

The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the FBI's New Orleans office issued a statement saying they plan to conduct "an independent and thorough review" of the incident on the Danziger Bridge.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - U.S. military forces launched airstrikes on a Pakistani village early Wednesday morning, two Pakistani military sources told CNN.

The strikes occurred about 1 a.m. in a village in North Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, a Pakistani military source said. The sources said the U.S. military launched two or three missiles that struck at least one home. The sources did not have any information on casualties or injuries.

U.S. military sources could not immediately be reached for comment.

From CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden

WASHINGTON (CNN) - More than 1,750 gang members and associates were taken into custody in a nationwide "summer surge" of police operations aimed at reducing street violence, authorities announced Tuesday.

The arrests of members of MS-13, 18th Street and many other gangs between June 1 and September 30 compares with about 1,300 arrests in similar operations a year ago.

Details of the four-month law enforcement "surge operation" coordinated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be announced Wednesday at a press conference in Washington. ICE Assistant Secretary Julie Myers and local police officials from New Jersey, Georgia and Kansas will describe some of the operations, including the capture of dangerous MS-13 and other gang leaders re-arrested after they had been deported.

From CNN's Paul Courson

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The man who bankrolled most of the "free benefits" that Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is on trial for allegedly trying to hide took the stand Tuesday, acknowledging his close friendship with the lawmaker even while serving as the government's star witness against him.

Bill Allen also testified that Veco purchased a switch to power a generator at the Girdwood home, and that he did not know what it had cost. Asked if Stevens ever paid the company back, Allen said, "No, not that I know of."

Court recessed for the day after about an hour and a half of Allen's testimony. He will return to the stand Wednesday. Prosecutor Nicholas Marsh told the judge earlier Tuesday that the state may rest its case on Thursday.