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Red Mass offers guidance for justice
AP - With the nation's highest court set to open a new session, members of Washington's legal community gather Sunday to seek spiritual guidance for justice in the annual celebration of the Catholic Church's Red Mass.
Foley Fallout Spurs Finger-Pointing Among Republicans
CQPolitics.com - House Republicans are grappling with political fallout from a lurid scandal and the way leaders dealt with Mark Foley and the now-former congressman’s salacious electronic messages to teen-age congressional pages.
Rice exploring ways to shore up Abbas
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will ask the Bush administration's Arab allies for help this week to shore up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the expense of the Hamas radicals who control part of the Palestinian government.
Bush raises volume on campaign charge
AP - President Bush is turning up the volume on his charge that Democrats are soft on terror, but his campaign message is competing against a noisy Capitol Hill scandal tailing Republicans as the election nears.
Santorum struggles for voter approval
AP - Rick Santorum has spent 12 years in the Senate — and millions of dollars on TV ads for a third term. Yet a lot of Pennsylvania voters just plain don't like him.
Foley scandal clouds remaining Bush term
AP - The final two years of President Bush's term could be bleak for Republicans if the congressional-page scandal roiling Washington ends up costing them control of the House or Senate or even both.
Hawaii gubernatorial candidates face off
AP - Hawaii's gubernatorial candidates traded barbs over the state's economy, the war in Iraq and their ties to President Bush in their only debate before the Nov. 7 election.
House hopefuls in Texas face off
AP - Republican challenger Van Taylor asked U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards to explain allegedly unpaid taxes from 20 years ago, while the Democrat renewed his call Saturday to halt negative campaigning in the race for the congressional district that includes President Bush's ranch.
Republican knew of Foley messages in 2000: Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican colleague of disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley knew of his sexually charged computer messages to teenage assistants as far back as 2000 and confronted him about them, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
UN weighs sanctions against North Korea
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - With world leaders roundly condemning North Korea's announcement it had carried out a nuclear test, U.N. Security Council members weighed an arms embargo and financial sanctions on Pyongyang.
High court to hear overturned murder cases
AP - Grieving family members sat in the front row of a murder trial wearing buttons bearing the picture of their slain loved one. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder. Later, the conviction was overturned because of the buttons.
Specter: FBI investigating senate aide
AP - Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has acknowledged the FBI is looking into allegations that one of his aides illegally helped her lobbyist husband get federal dollars for his clients.
White House hopefuls preparing for 2008
AP - Why wait for the chance of a lifetime? Voters have yet to cast ballots for the midterm elections, yet presidential hopefuls are busy maneuvering for the national contest two years away.
Rice to visit East Asia next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Japan, South Korea and China next week to try to bolster a U.S. push for tough action against North Korea after its reported nuclear test.
U.S. courts Libya for Africa security network
STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - The United States is keen to add Libya to a group of nine north and west African nations with which it is working closely to deny al Qaeda a sanctuary in the region, senior U.S. military officials say.
NKorea return to 6-way talks won't end sanctions: US
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer said on Monday a return by North Korea to stalled six-party talks on its nuclear program would not be sufficient to end United Nations sanctions.
North Korea talks not on agenda for Rice trip
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At each stop on a high profile visit to Asia and Russia this week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will talk about North Korea's nuclear program, but Pyongyang itself will get the silent treatment.
Cost-of-living increases for Soc. Sec.
AP - Cost-of-living increases for Soc. Sec.
GOP uneasy about Idaho House race
AP - For years, Idaho's most endangered species have been bald eagles, sockeye salmon and Democrats.
Freshman Republican battling an unknown
AP - She's got zero political experience, unless you count a stint as president of her suburban community club. But somehow, Democrat Darcy Burner is waging a serious challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Dave Reichert.
Sex scandals dominate midterm elections
AP - Cover your eyes, kids, it's time to round up a few of this week's headlines from the midterm elections.
Steady as she goes for Fed
AFP - Facing a murky economic outlook on the one hand and US elections on the other, the Federal Reserve looks set to hold interest rates steady this week.
GOP strategist: Chase has no shot in Mass.
AP - It was a reception befitting a rock star — or a Kennedy in Massachusetts. Backers clapped and cheered as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy climbed out of a dark blue Chevy Suburban in the parking lot of Skip's Diner and shook hands with a throng of well-wishers, including the mayor of a neighboring town.
Wyo. opponent says incumbent made threat
AP - Thomas Rankin, the Libertarian running for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat, said Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., threatened to slap him after a televised debate.
Scandal limiting Hastert campaigning
AP - Sidelined by scandal, House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been largely absent from the campaign trail this month as Democrats mount their strongest challenge in a decade to the Republicans' grip on the House.
Poll: Gov. Schwarzenegger leads Angelides
AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is leading state Treasurer Phil Angelides in the race for California governor, boosted by support from the heavily Democratic San Francisco Bay area, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Candidates debate in Foley's district
AP - Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley may not be running for Congress anymore, but he was still part of the first debate Thursday night between the candidates seeking his seat.
Judge tells lawyer to drop Rove claim
AP - A judge refused Friday to toss out charges against a Florida businessman whose lawyer claimed that presidential adviser Karl Rove set off probes against his client to retaliate for a flood of spam e-mails to President Bush.
Nev. candidate says he'd take polygraph
AP - A Republican congressman running for Nevada governor who was accused of assaulting a casino cocktail server said he is willing to take a lie-detector test.
China wants to deepen military ties with ASEAN
NANNING, China (Reuters) - China and the countries of Southeast Asia should deepen their military ties and speed up negotiations on the creation of the world's most populous free trade area, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday.
Millions spent on negative political ads
AP - So far this campaign, the political parties have exposed voters to nearly $160 million in ads attacking congressional candidates. How much spent painting a positive image? About $17 million.
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