Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide Shocks Associates  —  Once-Soaring GOP Career Man Said to Be Devoted to His Family and Church  —  Claude A. Allen has said his mother warned him that as a black man he risked ruining his life, or at least his career, by becoming a Republican.

And the winner is Frist, the home state favorite  —  But the big surprise is Massachusetts' Gov. Mitt Romney's showing … MSNBC TV  —  MEMPHIS, Tenn. -  —  Tom Curry  —  And the winner is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.  —  The climax of a three-day gathering of Republican activists …

Internet blows CIA cover  —  It's easy to track America's covert operatives.  All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.  —  WASHINGTON — She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.

Army Guard Refilling Its Ranks  —  The Army National Guard, which has suffered a severe three-year recruiting slump, has begun to reel in soldiers in record numbers, aided in part by a new initiative that pays Guard members $2,000 for each person they enlist.

Milosevic Is Found Dead in Cell, U.N. Officials Say  —  THE HAGUE, March 11 — Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia and architect of a decade of war that took more than 200,000 lives and tore the country apart, was found dead in his cell at the United Nations detention center …

Bloggers at the Gates: What Was Good for EBay Should Be Good for Politics  —  After the disastrous 2004 election, prominent Democrats gathered in Monterey, Calif., to discuss what to do next.  The organizers scheduled a session on coalition building, but each special interest complained that its issue was being slighted.

Even as U.S. Invaded, Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat  —  As American warplanes streaked overhead two weeks after the invasion began, Lt. Gen. Raad Majid al-Hamdani drove to Baghdad for a crucial meeting with Iraqi leaders.  He pleaded for reinforcements to stiffen the capital's defenses …

US hostage in Iraq killed after torture: police  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - American hostage Tom Fox has been killed and his body, showing signs of torture, left at a garbage dump in Baghdad, police said on Saturday.  —  One of the policemen who found the body said the 54-year-old peace activist …

Look Who's Running the World Now  —  The Dick Cheney era of foreign policy is over.  —  From 2001 to 2005, the vice president's influence over U.S. foreign policy may have been greater than that of any individual other than the president since Henry A. Kissinger held the positions …

Preview of 'Vanity Fair' Article on Plamegate: Too Much of Nothing?  —  NEW YORK A massive Vanity Affair review of the Plame/CIA case coming to newsstands on Tuesday is notable for the absence of major revelations.  The article, "Lies and Consequences," covers all or parts of 17 pages …

Gatekeeper v. amateurs  —  The powerful — the rich and the elected — used to be the gatekeepers to information.  Then, with the advent of mass media, journalists took over that role.  They were the gatekeepers to the public.  A few decades ago, for reasons I'll go into in a moment …

Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug  —  Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu.  The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu …

John Burns, Back from Baghdad: U.S. Effort In Iraq Will Likely Fail  —  NEW YORK A day after returning to the U.S., after another long term as bureau chief in Baghdad, John F. Burns of The New York Times said on Bill Maher's live Friday night HBO program that he now feels, for the first time …

The Fallback  —  If you harbor serious thoughts of running for the presidency, the first thing you do — long before you commission any polls or make any ads, years before you charter planes to take you back and forth between Iowa and New Hampshire — is to sit down with guys like Chris Korge.

A Sharp Debate Erupts in China Over Ideologies  —  BEIJING, March 11 — For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism …