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• NEWS -- Violence in Mexico spills across US border
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.
• NEWS -- Ariz. governor ends sheriff's immigration contract
  PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Janet Napolitano ordered the state to end an anti-illegal immigration contract with a high-profile sheriff Tuesday so she can pay for a larger effort to track down thousands of felons around Arizona.
• NEWS -- NRA chief stresses common ground with McCain
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A top official of the National Rifle Association said Republican John McCain has been a reliable ally of gun owners despite divisions with the powerful lobbying group on some issues.
• NEWS -- Determined Clinton wins W.Va., says race not over
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
• NEWS -- McCain casts himself as environmental steward
  NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) -- John McCain on Tuesday cast Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton as latecomers to the environmental battle, saying he would be willing to debate the issue with either of them in the general election to underscore his experience with the issue.
• NEWS -- Bush calls new attack on US his worst worry
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in ''flawed intelligence'' before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could ''eventually lead to another attack on the United States.''
• NEWS -- Bernanke: Financial turmoil in markets easing
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the situation is still ''far from normal,'' Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.
• NEWS -- Farm bill full of goodies for both rich and poor
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- A $300 billion farm bill contains a little something for everyone, including tax breaks for Kentucky racehorse owners, extra help for farmers in Hawaii and Alaska, and dollars for salmon farmers.
• NEWS -- Congress urges Bush to halt oil reserve shipments
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to challenge President Bush to temporarily halt the daily shipment of thousands of barrels of oil into the government's emergency reserve.
• NEWS -- Democrats propose taxes to fund veterans' benefits
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are proposing a tax surcharge on millionaires to pay for a big increase in education benefits for veterans of the war in Iraq, lawmakers said Tuesday.
• NEWS -- Televangelist John Hagee apologizes to Catholics
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having ''emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews.''
• NEWS -- Top Democrat announces budget agreement
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats controlling Congress are leaving difficult decisions on automatic tax increases to the next president and the newly elected Congress under a freshly negotiated House-Senate blueprint for the upcoming budget year.
• COMMENTARY -- Race And The 2008 Election
  By Tony Blankley -- Race, the yet unclosed scab that has run deep through our history, is about to be discussed as it never has been in a presidential election. In fairness to the United States, racial attitudes (or man's view of the "other" man) is a universal phenomenon that in most countries either goes unspoken or results in straight-out ethnic cleansing and murder. Here in America, in our earnest striving toward perfected tolerance and equality, we loquaciously agonize over our shortcomings -- and it is good that we do.
• COMMENTARY -- Assimilation Of Immigrants
  By Paul M. Weyrich -- When my father came from Germany as a 19-year old the very first thing he did was to enroll in a class taught at a local public school to learn English.
• COMMENTARY -- Beyonce's New Brand Of Pedophilia Chic
  By Michelle Malkin -- If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus -- wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet -- in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain't seen nothing yet. Pop diva Beyonce Knowles has launched a girls clothing line that makes Miley's bare-backed glam session look like a Shirley Temple photo shoot.
• COMMENTARY -- Too 'Complex'? - Part II
  By Thomas Sowell -- Let's face it. Supply and demand will never replace "need" and "greed" in political discussions of economic issues. Talking about the "need" for more affordable housing or more affordable medical care is what will get politicians more votes this election year.
• COMMENTARY -- Is Obama Smarter Than A 5th Grade Jaywalker?
  By Doug Patton -- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has an indicted, Syrian-born Chicago shyster named Tony Rezko for a financial mentor. He has a screwball, race-baiting, America-hating pastor named Jeremiah Wright for a spiritual mentor.