The departing senior envoy in Iraq held talks with men he believed represented major insurgent groups in a drive to bring militant Sunni Arabs into politics.
U.S. Attorney Flap Is a Primer on How Not to Manage a Crisis (March 23)
Cheney's Hand Seen in Executive Privilege Fight (March 23)
A History of Attorneys General in Hot Water (March 23)
News Desk Blog Reader Question: Will the White House Win The Rove/Miers Battle With Congress? (March 21)
Bush-Congress Showdown Is a Goldilocks Tale (March 21)
News Desk Blog: As Goes Rumsfeld, So Goes...Gonzales? (March 21)
Documents Reveal Personal Side of Showdown With U.S. Attorneys (March 20)
News Desk Blog: A Limited White House Offer (March 20)
News Desk Blog: Did DOJ Try to Slip Griffin Through? (March 20)
News Desk Blog: Dispatch From the Document Pile (March 20)
Gloria Borger: Incompetence Reigns in Gonzales Flap (March 20)
News Desk Blog Exclusive: E-mail Shows Internal Rift At Justice Over Firings (March 19)
News Desk Blog: Paralysis Sets In as DOJ Faces Crisis (March 19)
Note to Gonzales on CIA Prosecution Preceded Firing of U.S. Attorney (March 19)
It's Make-or-Break Time for Gonzales (March 19)
GOP in Sync on Budget and Gonzales (March 19)
Gonzales: The Texan Who Can't Shoot Straight (March 16)
Ashcroft Aide Sought to ID Weak U.S. Attorneys (March 16)
Bush Aides Worry About Bush's Loyalty to Gonzales (March 16)
Bonnie Erbe: Gonzales, the Walking Cadaver (March 16)
Capitol Hill Turns Up Heat on Gonzales (March 15)
John W. Mashek: Gonzales Is on Borrowed Time (March 15)
Behind the Scenes of the U.S. Attorney Firings (March 13)
Furor Over Firings Rages Despite Gonzales Admitting Mistakes (March 13)
GOP Senators Not Rushing to Back Gonzales (March 12)
John W. Mashek: Gonzales Rivals Rove as Chief Manipulator (March 9)
News Desk Blog: U.S. Attorney Hubbub May Have '08 Implications (March 8)
Investigation Widens Into Dismissals of U.S. Attorneys (March 7)
Congress Probes Departures of U.S. Attorneys (Feb. 6)
Republican insiders see the hand of Vice President Cheney in the White House's tough stand against allowing political adviser Karl Rove and other senior White House officials to publicly testify under oath before Congress.
AP - Roadside bombs killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq on Sunday, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital, the military said.
AP - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called the Iranian seizure of 15 British sailors and marines "unjustified and wrong," saying in his first remarks on the escalating confrontation that London saw it as a "very serious situation."
AP - Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded Sunday as three key senators sharply questioned his honesty over last fall's firings of eight federal prosecutors. Additionally, two Democrats joined the list of lawmakers calling for Gonzales' ouster.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned that "those seeking to impose sanctions against Iran will suffer a greater damage themselves," according to Iran's state-run news agency. The Iranian leader's warning comes one day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed new sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to suspend its uranium-enrichment program.
Democratic presidential contender John Edwards and his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth defended their decision to continue his White House bid Sunday, but the former senator said voters' questions about the decision to keep running are legitimate.
More than four hours after they fell from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico, two vacationers were pulled from the water about 150 miles off the Galveston, Texas, coast early Sunday, according to the cruise line and the U.S. Coast Guard.