AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can campaign in New Hampshire and still sleep at night in his own bed in Massachusetts. Yet, the neighbor's edge has been less than a home-court advantage in the nation's first 2008 presidential primary state.

AP - An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for the mayor of Mississippi's largest city on charges that he violated terms of his probation, which had been set because of misdemeanor weapons charges, officials said.

AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday blamed Bush administration failings in Iraq for strengthening the strategic position of Iran, which he says must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Reuters - North Korea is seeking humanitarian aid at talks with the South, an official said on Thursday, signaling Pyongyang was trying to cash in on a reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula.

AP - As several House committees prepared to delve into the scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, outraged lawmakers vowed quick action and called for an independent commission to examine poor conditions for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Reuters - A second U.S. Republican lawmaker has acknowledged calling a federal prosecutor to complain about the slow pace of corruption cases just before elections last year, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

AP - The CIA leak trial turned a spotlight on the shifting ground rules for reporters and their editors who more than ever must balance their pursuit of the news with a heightened risk of landing in court.

AP - Attorneys for I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby began crafting a request for a new trial Wednesday as the Bush White House tried to knock down speculation about a pardon for the convicted former aide.

AP - President Bush sought to reverse an impression of U.S. neglect as he opened a weeklong tour of Latin America on Thursday. Police clashed with protesters in Brazil and across the region.

AP - U.S. authorities presented independent Cuban activists and independent journalists with the State Department's annual human rights report Wednesday, saying the situation has not changed since Fidel Castro stepped aside seven months ago.

AP - Fred Thompson thinks there isn't enough 'star' power in the GOP presidential field, so the professional actor and former Tennessee senator is considering getting into the 2008 race.

AP - California, always a leader in fashion and fads, is poised to become a national political trendsetter as well in 2008.

AP - The White House considered firing all 93 federal prosecutors at the start of President Bush's second term, but yielded to Justice Department objections and eventually agreed to a smaller list of dismissals compiled by Justice officials, a spokeswoman said Monday.

AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is paying a tax penalty — not the kind you get from the IRS.

AP - A Senate panel is poised to approve a budget blueprint awarding near-term spending boosts for Democratic favorites such as education and veterans programs, while putting off difficult decisions on taxes, Social Security and Medicare.

AP - The first deadline in the presidential money primary holds promise and pitfalls for Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP - Trailing two better-known rivals in the polls, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is trying prove his political viability using a different yardstick — cash in the campaign account.

AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refused again on Friday to stop sensitive nuclear work and prepared to confront the UN Security Council face to face over a proposal for wider sanctions against Iran.

AP - Success in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary may hinge on how well candidates win over the politically fickle as well as the party faithful.

AP - A then 26-year-old Barack Obama walked down the aisle of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, knelt beneath a cross suspended from its rafters and, as he later explained it, committed himself to God after years as a religious skeptic.

AP - The Iraq war, a defining issue of the 2008 presidential race, has turned into a proxy fight between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama over credibility and leadership.

AFP - Global pressure mounted on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday, with former colonial ruler Britain calling for tougher EU sanctions over his "disgraceful" crackdown on opposition leaders.

AP - The flap over fired prosecutors is jeopardizing confirmation of President Bush's pick for the No. 3 official at the Justice Department.

AP - Three Democratic presidential hopefuls tried to show off their union bona fides Friday at a rally of cocktail waitresses, housekeepers and line cooks who make up the state's largest labor union.

Reuters - A group of prominent European intellectuals condemned European Union leaders on Saturday for dithering over the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

AFP - The United States Saturday said new UN sanctions imposed on Iran Saturday over its nuclear program were a global rebuke which would leave Tehran even more internationally isolated.

AFP - A spectacular firework display in Berlin closed the European Union's 50th anniversary celebrations Sunday, as EU leaders differed over how quickly to push for fresh institutional reform.

AP - Echoes of the 2002 business scandals reverberate through a case before the Supreme Court that could make it tougher for shareholders to win lawsuits against public companies.

AP - A leading human rights organization says President Bush should not have met at the White House with a Russian military official the group alleges was responsible for serious rights abuses in the breakaway Chechnya province.

AP - The news of neglected war veterans outraged Capitol Hill, caused resignations at the Pentagon and promises of better treatment from the Bush administration. Now the patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center get to hear from President Bush himself.

AP - The U.N. Human Rights Council expressed concern over the situation in Darfur on Friday, but stopped short of criticizing Sudan's government.