White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors  —  WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints about federal prosecutors as House investigators declared their intention to question him about any role …

Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'  —  Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.  —  They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians …

Native American trackers to hunt bin Laden  —  WASHINGTON: An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan's borders.  —  The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache.

Halliburton to Move Headquarters to Dubai  —  Halliburton, the big energy services company, said today that it would open a corporate headquarters in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and move its chairman and chief executive, David J. Lesar, there.  —  The company will maintain …

Swiss paper says former Taliban defense minister free  —  GENEVA: A Swiss newspaper claimed Sunday that the Taliban's former defense minister was free two days after his reported capture by Pakistani security forces.  —  The Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick said one of its reporters spoke …

Colin McEnroe  —  Tim's Policy Offers Utter Impunity  —  OK, so it's early daylight savings or something.  You're awake now, and confused about what time it is.  It's as if the Lunesta moth picked up your bed while you slept and flew it out to somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean where it is one hour earlier.

Progressive Opposition Fading On Iraq Supplemental  —  The buildup to war in Iraq from 2001-2003 is one of the main reasons I started working in politics full-time.  As such, when it came time for the fight over the supplemental appropriations bill under a Democratic majority, I could not just idly sit by.

It's Uphill for the Democrats  —  They Need a Global Strategy, Not Just Tactics for Iraq  —  The Democrats' victory last November obviously reflected popular sentiment against the war in Iraq, but nothing seems obvious now as Democrats try to exploit their new majority status in Congress.

Fox News at Its Finest.  —  (Update: I'm told by several people (and have gotten flamed for it by some idiot named Norad on fark.com) that the picture of the NYC skyline does not contain the WTC, after all so I've deleted that from the post in the interests of fairness.  Sorry for the slipup.

Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid  —  A new federal rule intended to keep illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid has instead shut out tens of thousands of United States citizens who have had difficulty complying with requirements to show birth certificates and other documents proving their citizenship, state officials say.

An 'Out of Control' Veep's Office  —  Conservatives are clamoring for a Libby pardon.  But don't count on Bush to go along—at least not yet.  —  For nearly two months, while his trial unfolded in a federal courtroom, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby seemed breezily confident.

Twice as Many Americans Conservative as Liberal  —  Looking at the topline results [PDF here] of the latest AP-Ipsos poll, I came across this:  —  So 41% of the country self-identifies as "conservative," 34% as "moderate," and only 21% as "liberal."  Further, 14% consider themselves …

Comic Richard Jeni dead of apparent suicide  —  Was regular on 'Tonight Show'; appeared in 'The Mask,' 'Aristocrats'  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Richard Jeni, a standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the "Tonight Show" and appeared in movies …

French Jews Fleeing Into Florida  —  Over the past few years there have been reports of French Jews relocating or even being urged to relocate by some Jewish groups and now there's a new twist:  —  French Jews are fleeing into Florida, the Miami Herald reports.

The new Seven Sisters: oil and gas giants dwarf western rivals  —  When an angry Enrico Mattei coined the phrase "the seven sisters" to describe the Anglo-Saxon companies that controlled the Middle East's oil after the second world war, the founder of Italy's modern energy industry …

TRANSCRIPT: FORMER SEN. FRED THOMPSON ON 'FOX NEWS SUNDAY'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the March 11, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, chances are you've never heard of U.S. President Charles Ross …