AP - South Carolina residents will continue to be able to use their driver's licenses to get on airplanes and into federal buildings, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday as it granted the state an extension to comply with a new federal ID law.
AP - A tip from an Iraqi helped the U.S. military find the remains of an Ohio soldier captured in an ambush and then shown on Arab television surrounded by armed masked men nearly four years ago, an Army official said Monday.
AP - Republican Sen. John McCain embarked on a carefully crafted tour to introduce himself to a wider election audience on Monday, but quickly veered off script to express surprise at the Iraqi government's crackdown on Shiite militias.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? Relative calm settled over Basra, neighboring provinces and Baghdad on Monday as a ceasefire took hold after nearly a week of pitched fighting between the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and Iraqi government forces.
AP - Russia's U.N. ambassador urged Iran on Monday to drop its opposition to talks with six key nations trying to ensure that its nuclear program is peaceful, saying the only way to resolve the dispute is through negotiations.
Time.com - Sgt. Matt Maupin is heading home, sadly, after nearly four years of a hometown's unanswered prayers
AP - The White House raised hopes Monday of achieving a breakthrough agreement to resolve bitter differences with Moscow over missile defenses in Europe when President Bush meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin this weekend.
AP - Increased oil revenue will allow Iraq to add $5 billion to its 2008 budget, money earmarked for investment in infrastructure and services, a government spokesman said Monday.
Reuters - Residents buried their dead after calm
returned to the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, but
fighting broke out in Baghdad despite a truce called by Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a week of bloodshed.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker.