Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links  —  TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned.

Busby on defense, says she misspoke  —  If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting."  —  On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words.

A Talk at Lunch That Shifted the Stance on Iran  —  WASHINGTON, June 3 — On a Tuesday afternoon two months ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat down to a small lunch in President Bush's private dining room behind the Oval Office and delivered grim news to her boss: Their coalition against Iran was at risk of falling apart.

A Latin Backlash  —  FOR YEARS Hugo Chavez's steady dismantlement of Venezuela's democracy and his embrace of dictators and terrorists around the world — from Fidel Castro to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — prompted next to no reaction from Latin America's democratic governments.

What's Lost in the Hue and Cry Over Haditha  —  Even in "good wars" things go horribly wrong.  The following quotations from "Naples '44," by the late Norman Lewis (perhaps the greatest English travel writer of the past century), are instructive.  Lewis was stationed in Naples following Italy's liberation …

Nervous informant who gave details of new terrorist device  —  THE informant told MI5 that they did not have much time to stop another lethal terrorist attack on London.  —  The details he passed on were so precise and so terrifying that intelligence agents had to drop some of their other investigations …

In a Solidly Conservative State, a Loyal Core of Support for Bush  —  PROVO, Utah — Here in what may be the reddest city in the reddest of states, where Democrats sometimes gather like lost souls at the one Starbucks, most people are standing by President Bush.

Here's the latest word from Geno's … The customer is always right?  Not at Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia.  —  Belly up to its counter and order a cheesesteak in a language other than English, and you'll walk away hungry.  Fromage-avec?  Fugheddaboudit.

Politics For the Disengaged  —  In a wonderful example of life imitating art, a group of serious political pros has taken the plot line of "The West Wing" and turned it into the most intriguing gambit yet seen for the 2008 election.  —  As fans of the now-canceled NBC drama know …