AP - A car bomb exploded in Baghdad on Sunday next to a parked minibus waiting for worshippers to board and travel to a Shiite shrine in the Iraqi capital, a police officer said. The blast killed nine people, including two boys, 9 and 14 years old.

AP - As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Six years later, the man President Bush wants to be attorney general acknowledged that the law authorizing those warrants "has its perils" in terrorism cases and urged Congress to "fix a strained and mismatched legal system."

AP - Opening an intense round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday played down expectations her mission would finalize preparations for a U.S.-hosted peace conference next month.