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 to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired for what critics charge were partisan political reasons.

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.

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 …

Halliburton to move its head office to Dubai  —  By David Wighton in New York and Simeon Kerr in Dubai  —  Halliburton, the oil services company once run by Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, on Sunday provided further evidence that the focus of many big US companies is shifting overseas …

AP Photo PAR105, VM142  —  PARIS (AP) - Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced Sunday he will not seek a third term in elections this spring - a widely expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative rival who has siphoned off his political base.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Ted Koppel Tells Shocking Truth About Iraq and War on Terror  —  Former "Nightline" anchor Ted Koppel was one of Tim Russert's guests on Sunday's "Meet the Press."  As amazing as it might seem, he made some truly shocking and compelling statements about the Iraq war and the war on terror …