Editorial: A Winning Deal on Trade  —  The Bush administration and Congressional Democrats have reached a broad understanding on trade that should benefit American workers, American businesses and global economic growth.  —  It is good to see that even in today's Washington …

Football reference trips up GOP hopeful  —  LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - Note to Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record): In Packerland, it's not cool to diss Brett Favre.  —  The GOP presidential hopeful drew boos and groans Friday at the Wisconsin Republican Party convention when he used …

No Disclosure: Presidential Candidates Defy Tradition, Refuse to Release Taxes  —  Since Watergate, Only Clinton Refused to Release Income Information  —  Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,worked for a hedge fund while heading a poverty center in between his presidential campaigns.

Pakistan on brink of disaster as Karachi burns  —  Chaos gripped the streets of Karachi yesterday as gun battles left at least 31 people dead and hundreds more injured, threatening a complete breakdown of law and order in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city.

Mugabe minister voted to U.N. post  —  Zimbabwe won approval last night to head a key United Nations body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental protection despite protests from the U.S., European nations and human rights organizations.  —  The approval was voted 26-21 …

Thompson revises apology on gay comment  —  LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a GOP presidential debate that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker.

Army Career Behind Him, General Speaks Out on Iraq  —  John Batiste has traveled a long way in the last four years, from commanding the First Infantry Division in Iraq to quitting the Army after three decades in uniform and, now, from his new life overseeing a steel factory here …

Congressman McHenry's Campaign Aide Indicted  —  The CBS News Investigative Unit has learned a man who was a field coordinator in Congressman Patrick McHenry's (R-NC) 2004 campaign has been indicted for voter fraud in North Carolina.  —  The indictment charges that Michael Aaron Lay, 26 …

Momentum builds against GOP candidates  —  The week had the feel of 1974.  Republican members of Congress marched to the White House to deliver a frank message to an embattled president: You are a liability.  —  Three decades ago, it was Watergate.  Now, it's Iraq.

TO THE DNC: SUE US  —  A Free Republic poster writes that he's a regular reader who enjoys our views on a variety of issues.  He writes that he's enjoyed our posts in which we use our skills as lawyers to weigh in on legal issues.  He draws our attention to the cease-and-desist letter …

Religious Groups Granted Millions for Pet Projects  —  Saint Vincent College, a small Benedictine college southeast of Pittsburgh, wanted to realign a two-lane state road serving the campus.  But the state transportation department did not have the money.  —  So Saint Vincent tried Washington instead.

General says he needs more troops  —  U.S. commander for northern Iraq cites the growing violence in Diyala province.  —  BAGHDAD — The commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said Friday that he did not have enough troops to deal with the escalating violence in Iraq's Diyala province …

Obama talks hybrids, but his ride has a Hemi  —  Sen. Barack Obama talks a good game.  He also drives a good car, but the two are not entirely compatible.  —  The Democratic presidential contender was in Detroit on Monday, oozing charisma and environmental awareness as he chided local automakers …

Tufts paper guilty of "harassment" for publishing unpleasant facts about Islam  —  The occasion was "Islamic Awareness Week" on campus, a cause to which the conservative student newspaper, The Primary Source, merrily contributed.  That thoughtcrime, coupled with an anti-affirmative-action …

Search ongoing for 3 missing U.S. troops  —  BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in the notorious "triangle of death" south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing.

The decline of motherhood  —  As we celebrate Mother's Day, we should pause to consider the social factors that keep more and more women from having children  —  Hiking along the northern reaches of British Columbia's Sunshine Coast last week, my sister and I passed by the home of a woman recently taken by cancer.

SCIRI Adopts Sistani, emphasizes Iraqiness  —  Bombings kill 26, wound 60  —  The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq held its annual party convention on Thursday and Friday and, according to Mariam Karouny of Reuters has decided to make some significant changes.

Ex-U.S. Attorney Questions Own Firing  —  Former W.Va. Prosecutor Says He Has 'Concerns' About Firing By Bush Administration  —  (AP) A former West Virginia federal prosecutor said Friday the White House fired him in 2005 in the middle of a corruption and vote-buying investigation but never told him why.