Israel seeks to reassure Syria: No summer attack  —  Israel's political and military leadership has been preparing in recent weeks for the possibility of a Syrian attack on the Golan Heights that will start as a result of a "miscalculation" on the part of the Syrians, who may assume that Israel intends to attack them.

Chastened McCain Relaunches Campaign  —  Amid growing internal concern about poor fundraising and the direction of his presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain's top advisers bluntly told backers on Tuesday of plans to overhaul the campaign and delay its formal announcement until after a major speech on Iraq.

Students Pelt Karl Rove In Protest  —  WASHINGTON — White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.  —  Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students …

No more GWOT, House committee decrees  —  The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.  —  This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee's Democratic leadership doesn't like the phrase.

Mormon Base a Mixed Blessing for Romney  —  It is the rare presidential candidate who comes to Idaho to raise money, but there was Mitt Romney last month, packing more than 100 people, at up to $2,300 a head, into the Crystal Ballroom in Boise.  —  "Nearly every seat was filled.

Bush Blames Democrats for Impasse Over Iraq Bills  —  The political brinkmanship over Iraq war spending intensified Tuesday, as President Bush said Congressional Democrats had "undercut the troops" by passing legislation that ties continued war financing to mandated timelines for the withdrawal of American combat units.

Did Keith Richards Really Snort His Dad's Ashes?  No — It Was A Joke!  —  Comments made in magazine interview were only 'said in jest,' manager tells MTV News.  —  Maybe you saw that Keith Richards item that started popping up all over the place on Tuesday (April 3) …

CNN Replaces Anchors on Its Flagging Morning Show  —  John Roberts, Kiran Chetry To Succeed the Two O'Briens  —  CNN is replacing both of its morning show anchors with recent recruits from other networks, sources familiar with the shake-up confirmed last night.

Too much hot air on global warming  —  We have spent the past decade debating a scientific consensus on global warming instead of taking action to fix it.  The time is now to move from talk to action.  —  For too long, we have allowed our national dialogue on this looming crisis to be distorted …

Unrelated Items Part of Iraq Bills Since War Began  —  To President Bush, they are "pork-barrel projects completely unrelated to the war," items in the House and Senate war-spending bills such as peanut storage facilities and aid to spinach farmers that insult the seriousness of the conflict and exist only to buy votes.

This Cat's old hat  —  Unless you live in Whoville, which is tucked in the mountains and doesn't get much news, you know that Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a best-selling classic.  2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the book's publication.  By now, it's an icon as much as a funny story and one of the most-loved titles of all time.

More Than a Feeling  —  President Bush and his advisers have made a lot of ridiculous charges about critics of the war in Iraq: they're unpatriotic, they want the terrorists to win, they don't support the troops, to cite just a few.  But none of these seem quite as absurd …