AP - Lawmakers budgeted just $100 million for damages when they reopened the government's discrimination settlement with black farmers. They probably should have handed over a blank check.
Politico - One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s biggest supporters in Hollywood (or anywhere else, for that matter) has been director Rob Reiner. -- read full article
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit the Middle East and Europe this summer, taking time off from campaigning in the United States in an effort to boost his foreign policy credentials.
AP - Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration.
AP - Appearing together in solidarity, Republican John McCain and Iraq's president said Saturday that the war-ravaged country is making significant but fragile progress.
AP - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday sought the love of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship with a pivotal swing-voting constituency.
AP - Disputes over energy investment and human rights hung over a Russia-European Union summit Friday where the two sides agreed they would try to address their differences in new talks on a stalled cooperation agreement.
AP - A government watchdog group on Friday called for an investigation into whether a Texas congressman used his influence to persuade U.S. law enforcement authorities to intervene to rescue a distant Mexican relative who was kidnapped for ransom in Mexico. -- read full article
AP - John McCain chastised Barack Obama and called for face-to-face town-hall meetings after being asked about a report that his rival claimed that if McCain is elected president, he will appoint a Supreme Court that rolls back gains in women's rights over the past 50 years. -- read full article
Politico - UNITY, N.H. — At a rally staged in a field of wildflowers, in a town so small that some residents of this state had never heard of it, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton attempted to show Friday that if they could put months of divisive campaigning behind them, so too should their supporters. -- read full article
AP - John McCain has an unusual endorsement — from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend.
