Time.com - If President Barack Obama thought he could deliver the promise of a few Israeli concessions on settlements during his upcoming Cairo speech to the Muslim world, he was sorely mistaken

Politico - POLITICO obtains a copy of former Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe's new book about the 2008 campaign.

AP - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld ordinances barring the ownership of handguns in most cases in Chicago and suburban Oak Park, finding a Supreme Court ruling in a District of Columbia case doesn't apply.

AP - Speaking in this ancient seat of Islamic learning and culture, President Barack Obama is hoping to usher in a new era in America's often fraught relations with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.

AP - In a solemn rendezvous with history, President Barack Obama will visit a scene of the 20th century's great European horror to make an urgent point about the fear that still stalks its survivors.

AP - Behind the massive English gates that herald the luxury co-op complex have lived senators, Cabinet members, judges.

AP - President Barack Obama says he's not responsible for how other countries defend religious freedoms but added the United States would never tell people what they can wear to express their faith.

AP - Incomplete European election results project this range of seats for political groups in the next EU assembly:

AP - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama made an unannounced visit to London on Monday after attending D-Day commemorations in Europe.

Politico - President Obama’s plan to empty the detention center appears to suffer another blow.

AP - President Mikhail Saakashvili said Wednesday that he has offered government posts to political opponents who have been leading street protests for the past two months. But opposition leaders said they have no interest in joining Saakashvili's government and would continue their protests to demand his resignation.

Politico - She didn't 'necessarily look at it word for word.'

AP - The big goals of the new American general taking charge of the war in Afghanistan start with fixing a problem that bedeviled the man he is replacing: the repeated, inadvertent killing of civilians.

AP - Gunmen killed a former top government minister in Ingushetia as he stood outside his home in the violent southern Russian region Saturday, law enforcement officials said.

CQPolitics.com - Second in an occasional series on appointed senators.

AP - Repairs for rural bridges, an under-highway safe crossing for turtles and efforts to protect the sage grouse population are among 100 projects a Republican senator pointed to Monday as questionable federal stimulus spending.

Politico - There is little disputing that right now Barack Obama is the world’s biggest celebrity.

AP - A former campaign aide to Sen. John Ensign confirmed her involvement Wednesday in an extramarital affair with the conservative Republican, lamented his decision to 'air this very personal matter' and said she eventually would tell her side of the story.

Politico - That is the thrust of arguments the Justice Department presented Thursday.

AP - An influential Catholic newspaper urged Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday to respond to allegations that women were paid to attend his parties.

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Saturday for a Europe-wide effort to design a new-generation rocket launcher to replace the Ariane-5.

AP - Portugal will take in two or three Guantanamo detainees once they are released by the U.S. detention center, the foreign minister said.

AP - A suicide bomber badly wounded a provincial president in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, an assassination attempt that undermined the Kremlin's claim that it has brought stability to the predominantly Muslim region.

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a warm and supportive welcome Tuesday from Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, while postponing a potentially less comfortable meeting with President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy.

AP - What is it with philandering politicians?

Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on Friday on one of the most significant environmental bills in history -- a sprawling measure that aims to wean industry off of carbon-emitting fuels blamed for global warming.

AP - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight countries meeting in Italy lamented corruption and the lack of basic services such as health and water in Afghanistan, saying Friday that better cooperation among countries in the region was needed to promote stability.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast ports face new competition as ports in Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they've relied on.

Time.com - After a five-month search for a church home, the Obamas choose Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, the same one the Bushes attended

Reuters - The United States joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Monday as part of the Obama administration's commitment to developing a new energy policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.