AP - New York City officials are planning to search through material excavated from around the World Trade Center site for any remains of Sept. 11 victims.

CQPolitics.com - One good thing that came out of last week's health care vote in the House, according to Republican Rep. Bob Inglis, is that it showed voters in his upstate South Carolina district exactly where he stands on the issue.

Politico - Health care is already casting a shadow on the 2012 presidential contest - and its GOP front-runner.

Politico - Most Dems who voted against health reform are unlikely to pay political cost for their apostasy.

AP - Iran's nuclear program is of 'critical concern' and will top the agenda when foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations meet Monday to discuss global security, Canada's foreign minister said.

AP - President Barack Obama has condemned the rush hour bombings in the Moscow metro, offering his condolences to the Russian people.

AP - The independent Commission on Wartime Contracting wants to know whether American contractors in Iraq are adequately reducing the number of employees in the country as U.S. troops are withdrawn.

AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey on Monday with the two countries in deep disagreement over the mainly Muslim country's faltering bid to join the European Union.

AFP - A bomb attack killed a NATO soldier in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military said, hours after US President Barack Obama left the country following a surprise visit.

AP - The Supreme Court won't stop a man convicted of murdering the daughter of former NFL star Fred Biletnikoff from getting a new trial.

Politico - The actor who stumped for Huckabee in 2008 will appear with GOP gov candidate Bob Vander Plaats.

Politico - A survey finds that 34 percent of the state's voters support the law, while 54 percent are against it.

AP - Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said Monday.

AP - In a story March 25 about al-Qaida sanctions, The Associated Press incorrectly described Muthanna Harith al-Dhari as the leader of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars. The leader was Harith al-Dhari, his father.

Time.com - A truce offer by Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar raises suspicions that Pakistan is looking to end the Afghanistan war on its own terms

AP - The Supreme Court has refused to let a company continue to buy and sell American Airline frequent flyer points while the airline is suing to stop the practice.

AP - The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems:

AP - The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II says Pope Benedict XVI should resign over the Catholic Church's handling of clerical sex abuse cases.

AP - President Barack Obama plans to mark the start of Passover with a private Seder in the executive mansion.

Politico - Norman Leboon will be charged with two federal counts.

Politico - Group investigates a nearly $2,000 expenditure recorded at a bondage-themed nightclub in Santa Monica.

Reuters - U.S. authorities have arrested and charged a man with threatening to kill the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, and his family, according to court documents filed on Monday.

AP - The EU Naval Force says pirates have hijacked a cargo vessel off the coast of Yemen.

AP - British authorities on Monday were considering banning mephedrone, a legal drug that has emerged from the shadows to the front pages after being linked to several deaths.

Reuters - The Obama administration on Monday unveiled another bailout program for troubled homeowners, pledging to divert $600 million in housing rescue funds to 5 more states on its list of 'hardest-hit' markets.

CQPolitics.com - The anticipated nomination of a noted Harvard University scholar to head the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid is likely to reignite the health care debate when Congress returns in two weeks from its spring recess.

AP - President Barack Obama has phoned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the rush-hour bombings on the Moscow metro.

Politico - The Georgia gubernatorial candidate may have violated House ethics rules prior to resigning.

Reuters - The Obama administration hopes to win Senate ratification of a major new nuclear arms deal with Russia by the end of this year, a senior State Department official said on Monday.

AP - Police say 67 sheep died when a pair of dogs attacked them and sent them fleeing into the path of a freight train in southwestern Germany.

AP - Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency set up the world's first nuclear fuel bank on Monday, in a plan meant to bridge shortages caused by snags in deliveries of low enriched uranium to power reactors.

AFP - US President Barack Obama condemned the deadly double suicide bombings on Moscow's metro Monday as 'outrageous acts,' and offered to help 'bring to justice' those who committed the attacks.

Politico - South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin leads a trio of Republican challengers in a Rasmussen Reports poll, but there's a warning sign: She's under 50 percent in all three match-ups.

AP - The U.S. House majority whip says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's dealmaking on health care legislation lost a key seat in Massachusetts but eventually led to the right strategy to win the vote.

AP - Britain's former leader Tony Blair is making a dramatic comeback to domestic politics ahead of the country's national election.

AFP - President Barack Obama appears to be riding a bounce after his success in prodding along a health care reform law, with more than half of Americans supporting the job he is doing, a CNN poll out Monday found.

AP - President Barack Obama's top health care official put health insurers on notice Monday that the new health overhaul law requires them to cover kids with medical problems, trying to dispel uncertainty over a much-publicized benefit.

Politico - Group says host failed to fulfill fundraising promises to help children of killed and wounded soldiers.

Politico - Obama and his health reform plan have lost the bump they got in several surveys eight days ago.

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that China agrees Iran must not become a nuclear weapons power and that the fellow Security Council member will play a role in forging sanctions against the Islamic republic at the United Nations.

AP - Bavarian police say they have arrested 11 people in an investigation of suspected cocaine trading by members of Italy's 'ndrangheta organized crime group.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Under fire from both right and left, the Republican National Committee is investigating how and why it spent nearly $2,000 for 'meals' at a bondage-themed strip club in West Hollywood featuring topless dancers simulating lesbian sex.

AP - After battling President Barack Obama's health care overhaul the better part of a year, the insurance industry said Monday it won't try to block his efforts to fix a potentially embarrassing glitch in the new law.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Under fire from both right and left, the Republican National Committee is investigating how and why it spent nearly $2,000 for 'meals' at a bondage-themed strip club in West Hollywood featuring topless dancers simulating lesbian sex.

AP - NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.

Politico - A staffer who accompanied group of young donors to a 'bondage club' has been fired.

AP - Addressing House Republicans recently, President Barack Obama said some things are more important than high poll numbers — 'and on this, no one can accuse me of not living by my principles.'

AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey Monday that its membership talks with the European Union did not guarantee accession and urged it to grant trade privileges to EU-member Cyprus.