Senate panel passes bill allowing guest workers  —  Sweeping immigration legislation faces stiff opposition in the House  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved election-year immigration legislation Monday that clears the way for millions of undocumented workers …

Moussaoui Testifies Over Attorneys' Objections  —  Zacarias Moussaoui testified in an Alexandria courtroom this morning that he was tapped by Osama bin Laden to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House as part of the terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

Alec Baldwin v. Sean Hannity in Radio Donnybrook  —  Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin stormed out of an in-studio radio interview Sunday night after he was confronted on the phone by radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.  —  Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown …

Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry  —  Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.

FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics  —  The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet.  —  In a 6-0 vote, the commission decided to regulate only paid political ads placed on another person's Web site.

Scalia just gave the finger in church yesterday (not kidding)  —  UPDATE: The Boston Herald is reporting Scalia's movement as "an obscene gesture" and a "flick of the wrist."  That still is unclear, it could have been the wrist-under-chin gesture mixed with the middle finger.  Either way, it's not really relevant.

Christian Convert Released From Prison  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped, the justice minister said Tuesday.  —  The announcement came after the United Nations …

Immigration protests continue in California  —  Crowds also gather in Detroit, Washington  —  LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday, waving flags and chanting slogans in a second week of protests against legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants.

Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.

The Republicans Must Get Their Act Together  —  Q & A: Newt Gingrich speaks out on the challenges the GOP faces in retaining control of Congress  —  Is there a potential for the 2006 elections to produce the same kind of upheaval on behalf of Democrats that the 1994 midterms did for Republicans?

Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point  —  The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame.  Why the crisis hit so soon—and what we can do about it

Congressman Got Sweet Real Estate Deal from DeLay-Buckham Front Group  —  Recently, the Washington Post and TPMmuckraker.com have been reporting on the DeLay-Buckham front group, U.S. Family Network.  Ed Buckham, you'll remember, was Tom DeLay's Chief of Staff until he left the Hill to open up his lobby shop, Alexander Strategy Group.

Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, and Search Is On  —  WASHINGTON, March 27 — American intelligence agencies and presidential commissions long ago concluded that Saddam Hussein had no unconventional weapons and no substantive ties to Al Qaeda before the 2003 invasion.