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.

AP - President Bush is getting at look at U.S. automakers' latest advances in alternative fuel vehicles as the companies press the case that ethanol and biodiesel blends can help reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil.

AP - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is back in New Hampshire and back embracing straight talk.

AP - Elizabeth Edwards said a 'hot spot' has been detected in her right hip in addition to the cancer found in one of her ribs, but said doctors told her they believe it is too small to pose a new health risk.

AP - Israel's defense minister told the head of the United Nations on Saturday that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire in southern Lebanon is endangered by Hezbollah militants, who continue to hold two captured Israeli soldiers and receive arms shipments from Syria.

AP - An image of the Liberty Bell, an icon of American freedom and independence, will adorn the Postal Service's new forever stamp.

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by American Indians to step into a decade-old lawsuit accusing the government of mismanaging more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber and other royalties from their lands.

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed European Union leaders at a 50th anniversary summit on Sunday to reform the bloc's creaking institutions by 2009, but met resistance from skeptical Polish and Czech presidents.

AP - The White House stood by Alberto Gonzales on Monday, even as support for the embattled attorney general erodes on Capitol Hill amid new questions about his honesty.

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the constitutionality of a child pornography law that a lower court criticized as criminalizing merely talking about illegal images.

AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday dismissed any comparison between the firing last fall of eight U.S. attorneys with the replacement of 93 U.S. attorneys when her husband became president in 1993.

AP - CNN commentator Bay Buchanan said Monday she will temporarily oversee the presidential campaign of Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo and has resigned from the cable network.

AP - Rep. Nick Lampson, who replaced former Majority Leader Tom DeLay in the House, underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery over the weekend and is recovering in a Houston hospital.

AP - Elizabeth Edwards said Monday that since announcing a recurrence of her cancer she's been buoyed by a national outpouring of sympathy, including 12,000 emails.

AP - President Bush will give three commencement addresses this year, including a speech in the congressional district of one of his fiercest war critics.

AP - The Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that its top official, Secretary Lawrence M. Small, has resigned amid criticism about his expenses.

AP - Consumer protection collided with modern economic theory Monday as the Supreme Court wrestled with a 96-year-old standard designed to promote competition.

AP - European leaders took a small but significant step Sunday toward overhauling the EU — and finally lifting the bloc out of two years of confusion and hand-wringing over its failed draft constitution.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton raises nearly $3 million in a single event and husband Bill pleads for more. John McCain publicly frets about falling financially behind. With the first quarter of fundraising ending Saturday, the presidential campaigns are working overtime to make sure they don't get tagged as losers in the money race.

Reuters - The U.S. presidential candidates have friends in corporate America fanning out across the country raising millions of dollars for their 2008 bids, ranging from Washington lobbyists to Wall Street financiers.

Reuters - Pope Benedict, speaking as the European Union marked its 50th anniversary without a mention of its religious heritage, said a society that lacks a Christian conscience will end up failing.

AP - Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he won't block Senate passage of an Iraq war spending bill even if the GOP fails to kill its troop withdrawal deadline because he knows President Bush will veto it.

AP - President Bush touted the benefits of 'flexible fuel' vehicles running on ethanol and biodiesel on Monday, meeting with automakers to boost support for his energy plans. Bush said a commitment by the leaders of the domestic auto industry to double their production of flex-fuel vehicles could help motorists shift away from gasoline and reduce the nation's reliance on imported oil.

AP - An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol belonging to the senator.

AFP - The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a law banning the promotion of pedophilia is compatible with the US constitutional right to free speech.

Reuters - The United Nations' new humanitarian chief said on Sunday efforts to help Darfur could collapse if the situation there got any worse, and worried EU leaders called for tougher sanctions on Sudan.

AP - The Bush administration defended itself Monday against congressional charges that it is not doing enough for thousands of Iraqi refugees, including many who are at great risk because of their service to the American-led coalition in Iraq.

The Christian Science Monitor - John McCain, the darling of the independents and the news media in the 2000 presidential campaign, is struggling in the 2008 race.

AP - The House passed legislation Monday clamping down on animal fighting, agreeing to tougher penalties that would make it a felony to transport animals across state lines for fighting.

Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation late on Monday to cut polluting emissions spewed by ships powered by diesel fuel.