ENTERTAINMENT

• Material Girl Turns 50
  Madonna hits half-century mark a week before she is to kick off her latest world tour in Wales.
• Kim Kardashian Thinks Reggie Bush May Be 'The One'
  Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is thinking long-term about football star boyfriend Reggie Bush
• Crowds Gather for Bernie Mac Memorial in Chicago
  Actor Samuel L. Jackson and Mayor Richard Daley are among the speakers expected to pay tribute to Mac at the large House of Hope church on the city's South Side.
• Bird? Plane? Nah, It's Bill Murray
  Actor Bill Murray jumps out of an airplane at 13,500 feet with the Army Golden Knights Parachute Team to kick off the 50th Chicago Air and Water Show.

POLITICS

• Senators Discouraged Sanctions on Chinese Imports
  Georgia's senators intervened last year to discourage trade sanctions on cheap Chinese paper imports as the Bush administration investigated the shipments.
• Transcript: President Bush's Radio Address
  President Bush calls on Russia to honor its pledge to withdraw its forces from Georgia, in his weekly radio address.
• Report: Lawyer in Edwards Scandal Bankrolled Texas Dems
  Dallas lawyer who helped John Edwards' former mistress move across the country has donated $3.5 million since 2005 to help fuel a Democratic resurgence in Texas, a newspaper reported Saturday.
• Pelosi: Democrats Open to Limited Offshore Oil Drilling
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says in her party's weekly radio address that Democrats will put forward legislation that allows for limited offshore oil drilling.
• Source Disputes Report of Edwards PAC Payoff
  A source claiming to have inside knowledge of the workings of John Edwards’ mistress's video company disputed a published report that the former North Carolina senator’s political action committee paid Rielle Hunter $14,000 for unused documentary footage.
• Bush: Breakaway Regions Must Remain Part of Georgia
  President Bush says Russia cannot lay claim to the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

U.S.

• Construction Underway on $57M San Diego Border Fence
  Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges.
• Boy, 3, Tried to Save Himself Before Dying in Hot Truck
  Harris County sheriff's deputies in Harris County sheriff's deputies in Texas say a 3-year-old boy struggled to escape his mother's hot truck before dying.
• Protesters Storm Grounds of Hawaiian Palace
  For the second time this year, a Native Hawaiian sovereignty group has taken over the grounds of Iolani Palace, residence of Hawaii's last monarch.
• Sex Offenders Fight Laws That ID Them Online
  Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the names of offenders on the Internet ... but sex offenders say they have rights, too.
• Gay Marriage Opponents Fight to Reverse Mass. Law
  Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state.
• Florida Police Allegedly Shoot Man Dead With Taser
  A Florida man is dead after being repeatedly shocked by a Taser stun gun.
• Vandals Turn Florida Judge Into Joker on Signs
  Vandals have struck a series of Florida election campaign signs with humorous graffiti, but not everyone is finding it funny
• Where Bombs Were Once Born, Birds Now Flock
  A site once home to a Cold War-era uranium processing plant and the focus of a contentious struggle to clean up toxic waste has re-emerged as a haven for wildlife and a memorial to those who worked to make the area safe.
• Abkhazians Seize Georgian Villages, Power Plant
  Georgia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian-backed separatists from the province of Abkhazia had taken over 13 villages in Georgia and a power plant.
• Store Clerk Abducted at Gunpoint; Suspect Questioned
  Authorities held out hope Saturday that they could find a clerk who was abducted at gunpoint in a crime captured by the security cameras in a rural grocery store, a sheriff said. Officials were questioning a suspect
• 7 Killed, Including 5 Children, in Memphis House Fire
  Five children, a teenager and an adult were killed in a fire that engulfed a Memphis home early Saturday, fire officials said.
• Elderly Woman Found in Trunk of Car on Iowa Farm
  An elderly woman has been rescued from the trunk of a car that was discovered on a farm in Emmet County in western Iowa.
• Family: Mom Who Killed 'Demon' Tot Was Brainwashed
  After denying Javon Thompson food and water for two days because he wouldn't say "Amen" after meals, the 1-year-old's caretakers waited for a divine sign that their message had been heard: a resurrection.
• Bounty Hunter, Bondsman to Spring Fla. Tot's Mom
  The mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony could be out of jail as early as Monday because a bail bondsman is reportedly flying in to post her $500,000 bond, MyFOXOrlando.com has learned.
• Tiger Attack Victim Gets Jail in Reckless Driving Case
  One of two brothers who survived a tiger attack at San Francisco Zoo has been sentenced to 16 months in state prison for violating probation in a felony reckless driving case.
• Man Finds Painted Purple Pigeon at NYC Playground
  Animal lover discovers painted bird on Queens playground that was unable to fly because of feathers rigid from the paint.
• Cops: Robbery Thwarted After Crook Locks Keys in Car
  A clumsy crook was nabbed Thursday after he locked his keys in the getaway vehicle, police said.
• Sheriff: DA Intern Arrested for Leaking Missing Marine Files
  Intern at a North Carolina district attorney's office arrested after investigators said he offered to sell confidential documents in a high-profile case of a slain pregnant Marine for an 'astronomical' fee to an undercover agent.

WORLD

• Canada to Search for Arctic Explorer's Ships
  For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.
• Georgia Signs Truce as West Demands Russia Leave
  Georgia's president grudgingly signed a truce with Russia Friday, even as he denounced the Russians as invading barbarians and accused the West of all but encouraging them to overrun his country.
• Egyptian Woman Gives Birth to Septuplets
  Egyptian woman successfully gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, a hospital director says.
• Russian Forces Pull Back After Cease-Fire Deal
  Russian forces on Saturday pulled back from the center of a town near the Georgian capital after President Dmitry Medvedev signed a truce with Georgia on Saturday, a definitive step toward ending the fighting.
• Truth Surfaces Decades Too Late in Case of Korean Socialite
  The record of a confidential 1950 U.S. inquiry and other declassified files, obtained by The Associated Press at the U.S. National Archives, emerge a half-century too late to save Kim Soo-im.
• Reports: Greek Gold Medalist Tests Positive, Goes Home
  Fani Halkia, who won gold in the women's 400 meters hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has tested positive for a banned substance, the Greek TV station Skai TV reported Saturday.
• The Russians Aren't Going, Despite Cease-Fire
  Russian forces built ramparts of earth around tanks and posted sentries on a hill in central Georgia on Saturday, seemingly digging in amid Western pressure for Moscow to withdraw its forces under a cease-fire deal signed by Russia's president.
• Armed Russian Troops Force Georgians to Clean Streets
  Russian troops and their armed allies forced Georgian men to clean the streets of South Ossetia's bombed-out capital Saturday, avenging Georgia's attack on the breakaway province a week ago.
• Egypt: Iran Should Not Test West Over Nuclear Question
  Iran should not give Western nations the justification to "drag the region down a dangerous slope" by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt's presidential spokesman said Saturday.
• Report: Greek Hurdler Tests Positive
  A Greek TV station says Fani Halkia, who won gold in the women's 400 meters hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, tested positive for a banned substance.
• Jamaica's Usain Bolt Breaks Record in 100-Meter Dash
  Usain Bolt rewrote the record books again and captured his first Olympic medal Saturday, running the 100-meter dash in a stunning 9.69 seconds for a blowout win that could have been even worse.
• Bombers Attack Iraqi Pilgrims for 3rd Straight Day
  Bombers strike Shiite pilgrims for a third consecutive day, killing six people in the latest in a series of attacks apparently aimed at stoking sectarian tension.
• U.S. Men's Volleyball Coach Rejoins Team
  U.S. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon rejoined his team Saturday after missing the team's first four games because of an attack on his in-laws at a popular tourist site in Beijing.
• Animal Rights Activists to Pope: Stop Wearing Fur
  Animal rights activists in Italy want the cat-loving Pope Benedict to stop wearing fur lining on his hats and robes.
• Ruling Party to Musharraf: Quit Now or Be Impeached
  Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi demands Pakistan's president step down within two days or prepare to be impeached, but Musharraf ally says the leader is prepared to fight the charges he considers absurd.
• How to Pronounce Beijing? NBC Seems Unsure
  NBC's Brian Williams pronounces the host city of the 2008 Olympics in a different way from others at NBC -- so who is right?
• Iran Denies Its Banks Fund Terrorism
  Iran on Friday denied accusations by France, Britain and the United States that its banks were involved in illegal nuclear activity and in financing terrorism.
• Phelps Snags 7th Gold in Butterfly Nail-Biter
  With history hanging in the balance, Michael Phelps decided to take one more stroke. His long arms soared above the water, windmilled past his ears and slammed into the wall.