AP - Laura Youngblood clutched her husband's photo as she drove alone to the hospital. She'd become pregnant nearly nine months earlier, the day he'd left for training for Iraq. Hours later, after the baby was born, she placed the photo in the bassinet next to the infant he'd named Emma in his last letter home. He would never hold her.
Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi officials will start talks on Saturday on agreements to govern future relations between the two countries, the Pentagon said on Friday.
AP - Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will proceed within days despite a shooting attack that killed eight students at a Jewish seminary, Israeli officials said Saturday.
AP - Speaking on behalf of the Democratic Party, an Iraq combat veteran said Saturday that apparent GOP nominee John McCain should not win the presidential election because he would continue the war in Iraq.
AP - Reaction to President Bush's veto Saturday of legislation that would have banned the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists. Bush said the bill would have ended practices that have prevented attacks.
AP - Steven R. Hurst, who has served as Associated Press chief of bureau in Baghdad for the past 18 months, has been assigned to Washington to cover U.S. politics with an international perspective and oversee AP's election news delivered outside the United States.
Reuters - Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for talks with Israel despite
a surge of violence and said that a just peace was his people's
goal.
AP - A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of al-Qaida in Iraq.
AP - When you close your eyes and think of Iraq, what do you see in your mind's eye?
Bloomberg - March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate and military veteran John McCain lacks the ``right leadership'' to deal with the war in Iraq or the struggling U.S. economy, a former soldier said in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address.