USATODAY.com - Trade and creating jobs to combat poverty and strengthening democracy in Latin America are at the center of the two-day Summit of the Americas beginning Friday. President Bush and leaders from 33 other democratic governments were to attend. Major protests were expected.

AP - Democrats are intensifying efforts to hold President Bush and his fellow Republicans accountable for missteps in the Iraq war, as they seek to exploit a potential GOP vulnerability heading into Congress' midterm election year.

AP - Friends pushed her to enter politics years before she took the plunge, but Shirley Franklin is a reluctant warrior no more.

AP - Endorsed by Prince Charles, two shows are opening at the National Building Museum with a message that Britain has something to tell the United States how to make cities more livable and more beautiful.

AP - A plan to send three U.S. relief specialists to Cuba to assess damage from Hurricane Wilma has been put on hold because Cuba wanted to turn the visit into a discussion of unrelated issues, the State Department said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ohio Republican lawmaker Robert Ney notified Congress on Friday that he has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury examining the lobbying activities Jack Abramoff, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

AP - When President Bush stops here on his way home from the Americas Summit, he will see evidence of what he would like to achieve in Iraq: Panama was invaded by the United States, its dictator captured and tried, and democracy is now a way of life.

AP - Clustered largely in northern Virginia, illegal immigrants barely mustered a response among voters just a few years ago.

AP - It appeared Saturday that President Bush's best hope for getting a Western Hemisphere trade pact would leave a gaping hole in what he once envisioned as a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Argentina.

AP - President Bush should "come clean" about any White House officials involved in the leak of the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame and "honor his pledge to fire all those involved," Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

AP - President Bush promoted Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Saturday, while expressing disappointment that he won't get a new justice on the high court by Christmas as he had hoped.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, establishing a woman's right to have an abortion, could be overturned only with the votes of at least five of the nine justices.

AP - President Bush's hopes of keeping alive his proposal for a Western Hemisphere free-trade zone were in doubt on Saturday, but he left a summit of Americas leaders before negotiations were done.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's name will not appear on the ballot Tuesday, when California voters go to the polls to consider initiatives he says are crucial to reshape state government.

U.S. News & World Report - The voting is still two months off, but partisans hoping for a battle royal over judicial nominations are probably going to have to wait even longer after the much-vaunted 'Gang of 14' centrist senators signaled that Judge Samuel Alito, with his 15 years of service on the federal bench, may not meet the group's criteria for a filibuster. In May, the bipartisan gang forged an alliance to avoid--or at least postpone--a procedural endgame over judicial filibusters. ...

U.S. News & World Report - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is a Philadelphia Phillies fan with an Ivy League pedigree; a straight-arrow husband and father lauded by friends and colleagues from both sides of the political aisle for his resolute character and first-rate intelligence. But more important--for now, anyway--he's a jurist with a deep, wide, and undeniably conservative legacy from 15 years on the federal bench.

LOME (Reuters) - West African cotton growers have again demanded an end to subsidies to counterparts in rich countries, keeping up pressure on U.S. trade representative Rob Portman who is due in the region to address the prickly subject.

AP - In an off-year election, campaigns for governor in New Jersey and Virginia have turned especially nasty, dragging in Adolf Hitler and an ex-wife's claim of betrayal in negative ads that pollsters say have turned off the public.

AP - Rep. Tom DeLay has relied on friends for support in the face of felony indictments, but for his legal strategy, he has tried to get close to his enemy.

AP - President Bush left the Summit of the Americas Saturday with no more than he expected: a cold shoulder from some Latin American leaders, no consensus on a free trading bloc for the hemisphere and biting criticism from anti-U.S. protesters and Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.

AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick runs the risk of becoming the first Detroit mayor since 1961 to be defeated in a re-election bid, four years after becoming one of the city's youngest leaders.

AP - President Bush's hopes of keeping alive his proposal for a Western Hemisphere free-trade zone were in doubt on Saturday, but he left a summit of Americas leaders before negotiations were done.

AP - President Bush left the Summit of the Americas Saturday with no more than he expected: a cold shoulder from some Latin American leaders, no consensus on a free trading bloc for the hemisphere and biting criticism from anti-U.S. protesters and Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.