Bush Set To Send Guard to Border  —  Assignment Would Be Temporary; Critics Cite Strain on Troops  —  President Bush tried to ease the worries of his Mexican counterpart yesterday as he prepared for a nationally televised address tonight unveiling a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops …

Dutch lawmaker in asylum row to move to U.S.  —  AMSTERDAM - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, will leave parliament and move to the United States after admitting she lied to win asylum in the Netherlands, media reported on Monday.

Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring  —  Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs  —  When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was …

Cheney Penned Note About Plame, Filing Shows  —  After former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV publicly criticized a key rationale for the war in Iraq, Vice President Cheney wrote a note on a newspaper clipping raising the possibility that the critique resulted from a CIA-sponsored "junket" …

Immigrant Supporters To Counter Bush Speech  —  New Alliance Ready To Make Itself Heard  —  As President Bush prepares to address the nation tonight about immigration, a newly formed network of groups that organized demonstrations for illegal immigrants is conference calling …

The Return Of Voodoo Economics  —  Republicans Ignore Their Experts on The Cost of Tax Cuts  —  Nobody serious believes that tax cuts pay for themselves, as I noted last week.  But most senior Republicans flunk this test of seriousness.  —  In January, George W. Bush declared that …

Reform bill to double immigration  —  The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants.  —  The number of extended family members …

Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling  —  Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:  —  A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.  —  "It's time for you to get some …

Leopold Responds to Corallo's Denial of Fitzgerald - Luskin Meeting  —  Last night, I spoke to Jason Leopold on the phone for a half hour or so.  Here's what he had to say about Byron York's article stating that Karl Rove's spokesman Mark Corallo told him that Jason's article Saturday reporting sources told …

U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday.

It'll Be Gore?  —  A reader predicts: … I'd dismiss this if a very canny Republican hadn't said exactly the same thing to me the other night.  I still cannot see it.  But in politics, anything can happen, I suppose.  —  (Photo: Frederick M Brown/Getty).

Transcript: First Lady Laura Bush on 'FNS'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the May 14, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, these are tough times for the Bush White House, and who better to discuss …

Only the Beginning?  —  The NSA has our phone records-but it may need a lot more to connect the dots.  —  Photo illustration by Viktor Koen For Newsweek  —  May 22, 2006 issue - To understand why the NSA wants to look at your phone bills, check out the work of Valdis Krebs, an expert on "social-network analysis."