AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he sees surprisingly little violence associated with the Iraq elections and that security improvements have forced al Qaida-linked militants to change tactics.

AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his appeal to Congress to vote on his health care reform, arguing that any delay would allow insurance companies to continue their old practices.

AP - The pink-cheeked 10-year-old staring from the front pages of Britain's newspapers is, some argue, the face of evil.

Reuters - The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said Friday.

AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

AP - Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman — and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader.

AP - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson.

AP - President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year's worth of work.