Bush E-Mail Mystery Deepens: White House Won't Name Tech Contractor  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  The White House will not identify a private company which appears to be involved in the disappearance of millions of White House e-mails.  —  The company was responsible for reviewing …

UPDATED 11:12 a.m. — GOP officials say Otter already has picked Craig successor; Otter's office says that's not so  —  Republican officials say Gov. Butch Otter will name Lt. Gov. Jim Risch to the Senate if Sen. Larry Craig resigns.  —  But Otter's spokesman Jon Hanian said the governor hasn't made that decision yet.

Fugitive fundraiser turns himself in  —  Norman Hsu, waits outstide a courtroom at San Mateo County Courthouse in Redwood City before turning himself in.  Hsu, who had been a fugitive from a 1992 grand larceny case, was taken into custody today after a judge ordered him to post $2 million bail.

Warner's departure puts GOP in bigger bind  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Senator John Warner announced Friday that he will retire after his current term expires and will not run for re-election in 2008.  The five term senior senator from Virginia was first elected to his seat in 1978.

Romney: Retaliate for a nuclear attack  —  NEWBERRY, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that if terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city while he was president he would retaliate "in a very dramatic and clear way."  —  Posed that scenario while campaigning Friday …

Fla. students face explosives indictment  —  WASHINGTON - Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were indicted Friday for carrying explosive materials across states lines and one of them was charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons.

U.S. Military Censors ThinkProgress  —  ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad.  —  Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org.  The error message he received:

The Bad Judgment of Gen. David Petraeus  —  Gen. David Petraeus is a good man and a great soldier with a track record of almost complete failure in his previous tours of duty in Iraq.  —  Let this be said up front: While the president and Petraeus maneuver for him to testify on the anniversary of Sept. 11 …

Congressmen visiting Iraq dodge attack  —  WASHINGTON — A military cargo plane carrying four members of Congress took evasive action and dispatched flares to avoid ground fire Thursday night after taking off from Baghdad.  —  The lawmakers said three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at their plane …

Got Arachnophobia?  Here's Your Worst Nightmare  —  Most spiders are solitary creatures.  So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.

"Redacted" stuns Venice  —  VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.  —  "Redacted", by U.S. director Brian De Palma …

Tancredo slams Katrina spending  —  GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.) said Friday it is "time the taxpayer gravy train left the New Orleans station" and urged an end to the federal aid to the region that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two years ago.

Katie: Greetings From Baghdad  —  Here I am, my first day in Baghdad... It is overwhelming to be here and there is so much to take in.  —  We arrived at the airport this morning on a private plane.  I was surprised to hear that there are now three Royal Jordanian flights into Baghdad every day.

WHO'LL BE THE NEXT REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITE TO BE DRAGGED OUT OF THE CLOSET SCREAMING ABOUT MEDIA WITCH HUNTS?  —  A certain lil' congressman allegedly likes his trade rough  —  Lil' Patrick McHenry isn't a character in Comedy Central's brilliant Lil' Bush, which features Lil' Cheney, Lil' Rummy …