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In 2004, Khalid el-Masri, a German citizen, was kidnapped by the CIA and kept in an Afghan prison for four months. Legalities aside, it was a blundered rendition — the CIA got the wrong guy — but it hasn't made el-Masri's life any easier in the years since he returned home and has been trying to seek justice.

The Senate has postponed a vote on its controversial immigration bill to June in order to have fuller debate. Opposition is widespread from unions, activists, businesses, and others. In the meantime, floor debate resumes today with dozens of amendments expected to be proposed.

As European development ministers meet in Berlin on Monday, one key figure was bluntly uninvited: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Europeans are backing the U.S. choice for Wolfowitz's successor but they want to see someone who was more conciliatory than Wolfowitz was.

U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, addresses a dilemma: How to attack insurgents without alienating the Afghan people.

Members of the House are working on a bill that would give President Bush funds for the Iraq war while imposing controls on how it is paid out to the Pentagon. The Democrats are offering $30 billion now, to cover two months. Republicans don't like the plan.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem to press Syria to do more to keep foreign fighters out of Iraq. It was the first meeting between high-ranking U.S. and Syrian officials in two years.

President Bush has made good on his promise to veto a $124 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that includes a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. The president vetoed the measure a few hours after Congress sent it to him, capping a day of political theater in Washington.

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Year of the Dog

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a complex question: What level of mental illness is enough to spare someone the death penalty? The case in question involves a man who killed two people in Texas after a history of mental illness.