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Shiite rallies mark anniversary of Baghdad's fall. Huge turnout follows calls by radical cleric for Iraqis to 'unify' against U.S. Tens of thousands marched through the streets of two Shiite holy cities Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall. The rally was called for by powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who commands an enormous following among Iraq's majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18019333/

McCain Discusses Iraq Market Visit on "60 Minutes".
"Of course I'm going to misspeak and I've done it on numerous occasions and I probably will do in the future. I regret that when I divert attention to something that I've said from my message but you know that's just life, and I'm happy frankly with the way I operate, otherwise it would be a lot less fun," McCain says. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/04/60minutes/main2648779.shtml?source=mostpop_story

Analysis: The GOP presidential race can be summed up this way: three strong contenders and a hunger for someone else. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18020509/

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday became the latest Republican to criticize Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for the dismissals of eight United States attorneys and he said Mr. Gonzales should consider stepping down. "You know, the buck has to stop somewhere, and I'm assuming it's the attorney general and his immediate team," he said. Asked whether Mr. Gonzales should resign, Mr. Gingrich replied, "I cannot imagine how he is going to be effective for the rest of this administration." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/washington/09attorneys.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1176118686-1Pbmzo4vQNOFnBMGbn70/w&oref=slogin

When Monica Goodling's name erupted into the news last week, the mainstream press discovered suddenly that Pat Robertson's Regent University exists. Not only that, the press learned that it has made a deep footprint in George W. Bush's Washington. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-press-discovers-pat-r_b_45322.html

After being criticized for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, radio host Don Imus said Monday that he's a good person who said a bad thing and will check his acid tongue. Imus said he was "embarrassed" by the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos." He said he had made the comments in the course of "trying to be funny," but he was not trying to excuse them. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/

Passengers aboard a crowded cruise ship that sank off a Greek island on Thursday say the evacuation was marked by a shortage of life vests, malfunctioning rescue boats, incompetent crew members, and near panic as people fled the rising water below deck. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18020556/

Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. "I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?" http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148