Arizona's Minuteman Patrols Conclude This Weekend
NPR (audio) - 48 minutes ago Description: A volunteer border patrol effort dubbed the Minuteman Project is wrapping up its monthlong patrol in southern Arizona this weekend. Organizers consider the effort a success and say they will expand their efforts.

Wave of Attacks in Iraq Kill 40 and Wound 100
New York Times - 1 hour ago BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 29 - Insurgents determined to destabilize Iraq's new government executed a devastating series of coordinated attacks on Iraqi forces on Friday, detonating 12 car bombs across greater Baghdad and striking military targets throughout

Pentagon: No New North Korean Nuclear Weapon Capability
Voice of America - 3 hours ago By Al Pessin. The US Defense Department says a statement Thursday by its intelligence chief was not a new assessment indicating an increased nuclear weapons capability by North Korea. The spokesman was attempting

Sgt. Akbar Sentenced to Death
Pardon My English - 57 minutes ago Justice has been served, as Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death for murdering two soldiers, Army Capt. Chris Seifert, 27, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, and wounding several others days before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.

Vital Signs for the Week of May 2
BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago Exactly where is the economy going The latest data show it cooled down in the first quarter, as prices kept creeping higher. What's more, there were some signs that businesses and consumers have gotten a little more cautious.

Political jockeying over Bush's Social Security plan begins
Kansas City Star - 1 hour ago BY JILL ZUCKMAN AND JEFF ZELENY. WASHINGTON - (KRT) - President Bush's proposal to restore solvency to Social Security by deeply cutting benefits for some Americans faced extreme peril Friday on Capitol Hill

Putin starts visit to Palestine
People's Daily Online - 1 hour ago Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) talked to President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas upon his arrival in Ramallah in the West Bank April 29, 2005. Putin arrived in Ramallah that day

10 bombs greet new Iraqi cabinet
Guardian Unlimited - 3 hours ago Insurgents exploded at least 10 car bombs in Iraq yesterday, killing and wounding more than 100 people just a day after the approval of the first elected government since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The backlash

Microsoft: The Cash Machine
Motley Fool - 6 hours ago By WD Crotty. Software giant Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) is a classic cash machine (or, if you're from the Midwest, a cash cow). Go back 15 years (you can go back further, but I didn't) and you'll see that revenue and earnings increased every year.

KMT, communists should work together, Lien tells Peking University
Taipei Times - 27 minutes ago By Caroline Hong. Speaking to Peking University students yesterday on the fourth day of his China tour, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan ( ) said cooperation between Taiwan and China