al-Sadr calls for attacks on U.S. troops  —  BAGHDAD - The renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqi forces to stop cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters to concentrate their attacks on American troops rather than Iraqis, according to a statement issued Sunday.

Buoyant Teheran warns of further kidnappings  —  Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to and do so with impunity.  —  The bullish reaction from Teheran will reinforce …

Iran's bluff humbles Britain  —  Watching Tottenham Hotspur fans taking on the Spanish constabulary at a European soccer match the other night, I found myself idly speculating on what might have happened had those Iranian kidnappers made the mistake of seizing 15 hard-boiled football yobs …

Justice's Holy Hires  —  Monica Goodling had a problem.  As senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House, she no longer seemed to know what the truth was.  She also must have been increasingly unclear about who her superiors were.

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President  —  Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.  —  Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank …

Pope: 'How much suffering' in the world … VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI decried suffering in much of the world in his Easter Sunday message, lamenting that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and voicing worry over unrest and instability in Afghanistan and bloodshed in parts of Africa and Asia.

White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik  —  Giuliani, Gonzales Pushed DHS Bid Forward  —  When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001.

Politics Collide With Iraq Realities  —  There are two Iraq wars being waged, according to military officers on the ground and defense experts: the one fought in the streets of Baghdad, and the war as it is perceived in Washington.  —  Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who took over as the top U.S. commander …

BMW Hydrogen-Powered 7-Series Hybrid: New York Auto Show Test Drive  —  Traffic outside the Javits Center, site of the New York International Auto Show, is heavy—even by Big Apple standards.  That means that you probably could walk across 11th Avenue from the roof of one taxicab to another without seeing asphalt.

no, glenn . . .  . . . he's in Nashville.  —  Nashvillians didn't need to read the Tennessean to learn that Al Gore flew into town last night.  They knew by the time they reached the end of their driveways to get the paper that the Gore Effect had caused temperatures to dramatically drop here this Easter weekend.

Crawford Peace House hit by strife  —  CRAWFORD, Texas - With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush's adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.  —  The Crawford Peace House recently lost …

Fred Thompson's Idea of 'Reform'  —  A man walking along the edge of a cliff slips and plummets toward jagged rocks and crashing surf, barely saving himself by clinging to the cliff's face.  But the cliff is too steep to climb, so he shouts, "Is anyone up there?"

2 Years After Big Speech, a Lower Key for Obama  —  Senator Barack Obama is not big on what he calls red-meat applause lines when he campaigns in small communities like this one, 45 miles northeast of Des Moines.  He does not tell many jokes.  He talks in even, measured tones …