AP - President Bush weighed in Monday against a Senate bill that would require dramatic cuts in climate-changing greenhouse pollution, cautioning senators "to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans."

AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" surgery Monday on a malignant brain tumor and should have no lasting side-effects, his doctor said in a statement.

AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent what his doctors called successful surgery Monday to treat his cancerous brain tumor, and told his wife shortly after that he felt "like a million bucks," a family spokeswoman said.

AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" brain cancer surgery here Monday, his doctor said, and will follow up with chemotherapy as the political icon vowed a return to work and to campaigning for presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

AP - California's most heated congressional campaign seems a blueprint for the traditional Republican Party schism between die-hard conservatism and a more business-oriented pragmatism.

AP - Most senators acknowledge that climate change poses a major environmental threat, but getting agreement on how to deal with it is another matter.

AP - From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.

AFP - The Democratic Party struggled Saturday to thrash out a truce over disputed primaries in Florida and Michigan, the key to ending the epic White House struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

AFP - The Democratic Party sought Saturday to thrash out a truce over disputed primaries in Florida and Michigan, the key to ending the epic White House struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

AFP - The Democratic party on Saturday opened a crucial meeting to decide the fate of disputed White House primary elections in Michigan and Florida.