Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting  —  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach — but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue.

U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart  —  American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.

Limbaugh: Conservatives Should 'Circle The Wagons' Around 'Idiot,' 'Weak Attorney General'  —  On his radio show Friday, Rush Limbaugh encouraged conservatives to "circle the wagons" around Alberto Gonzales, recycling his argument that winning elections is more important than governing.

Lieberman Scolds Reid For 'War Lost' Remark  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman rebuked Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Friday, saying he strongly disagreed with Reid's assessment that the Iraq war is "lost."  —  "This is exactly the wrong time to question our strategy in Iraq …

Gunman knew engineer he killed at NASA, police say … HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — A NASA engineer Friday shot and killed another engineer and then turned the gun on himself at the Johnson Space Center, police and NASA officials said.  —  The shootings occurred in a single office in Building 44 on the sprawling campus.

Land-Swap Plan Causes Trouble For Congressman  —  Mr. Renzi Offers Field  —  To Mining Companies;  —  Grand Jury Is Active  —  SUPERIOR, Ariz. — As they dig for nickel, copper and other commodities in the far corners of the earth, the world's largest mining companies …

Jihadist video shows boy beheading man  —  KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan - The boy with the knife looks barely 12.  In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy.  Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

Weapons to go offstage  —  Trachtenberg cites Virginia Tech attack  —  In the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions.

Deliver us from evil  —  According to the AP.  Iraqi insurgents are now fighting each other, as "moderate" Sunni terrorists tangle with "extremist" al-Qaeda whose brand of Islam is so radical that it prohibits placing cucumbers beside tomatoes because these vegetables have different genders.

The Saturday Cartoons  —  All cartoons are posted with the artists' express permission to BobGeiger.com.  Please visit the following sites to see more work from these fine cartoonists:  —  Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle  —  Tony Auth, The Philadelphia Inquirer  —  Justin Bilicki, City Pulse

Army Clamped Down After Tillman's Death  —  AP Photo FX103, FX104, FX106, FX102  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate …

Iraqi tribal chiefs forming an anti-insurgent party  —  The Sunni sheiks aim to set up a council and enter elections.  They also seek to enhance U.S. troops' image.  —  RAMADI, IRAQ — A group of Sunni tribal leaders in beleaguered Al Anbar province said Thursday that it intended to form …