Call to Censure Bush Is Answered by a Mostly Empty Echo  —  WASHINGTON, MARCH 31 — The Senate Judiciary Committee opened a bitter if lopsided debate on Friday over whether Congress should censure President Bush for his domestic eavesdropping program.  —  Although few Senate Democrats …

Rice: Don't take Iraq errors 'literally'  —  U.S. secretary of state visits England amid anti-war protests  —  BLACKBURN, England (CNN) — One day after Condoleezza Rice said the United States made possibly "thousands" of tactical mistakes in the war against Iraq, the secretary of state …

Politics Is Facing Sweeping Change via the Internet  —  WASHINGTON, March 31 — The transformation of American politics by the Internet is accelerating with the approach of the 2006 Congressional and 2008 White House elections, prompting the rewriting of rules on advertising, fund-raising …

McKinney Says Police Officer Touched Her 'Inappropriately'  —  Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, said yesterday that the officer started the incident by "inappropriately touching and stopping" her after she walked past a security checkpoint.

A Geek, Sure, but No Patsy When It's About Research  —  WITH his baggy black clothes, his lank, black, center-parted hair, and his black-framed spectacles offsetting a moon-pale face, Laurie Pycroft knows how he is likely to be described.  —  "You are welcome to use the word geek," he tells an interviewer.

Borders Blasts Back On Controversial Cartoons  —  New York, Mar. 31 - Gregory Josefowicz, the combative chairman of Borders Books, blasted back at his on-line critics today in a scathing on-line letter singling out right-wing blogger Charles Johnson of "Little Green Footballs".

Cranky Al Franken, Matt Lauer, NBC's Today Show, Michael Smercomish  —  FRANKEN: 'SCREW YOU!'  —  On National Television, Grumpy, Testy Al Lets Loose  —  Memo to network producers: avoid booking Al Franken in the early morning hours.  Before a certain point, he's a certifiable grump.

'I Am Not Running Away'  —  Meet Benon Sevan, the man at the center of the Oil for Food scandal.  —  NICOSIA, Cyprus—"Medium or sweet?" asks Benon Sevan.  He is inquiring how much sugar I would like in the Turkish coffee he's boiling up for us on his kitchen stove, and I am torn between thanking …

US lobby groups aim to weaken Cfius bill further  —  Washington's most powerful business lobbyists patted each other on the back this week after an intense lobbying campaign helped water down proposed legislation that will make the national security review process tougher for foreign companies buying sensitive US assets.

Clark: U.S. Needs New Plan on Terror War  —  WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark accused the Bush administration Saturday of taking the nation on a "path to nowhere" with misguided moves on national security.  —  The retired Army general and NATO military commander argued …

More Insight Into Carroll's Situation  —  I think anyone who wants to criticize anything Jill Carroll has done or said should at a very minimum stop and read this article first.  I'll say it again: this woman is not a soldier, and she was under no obligation whatsoever to hesitate for a nanosecond …

ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail  —  ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.

Don't Politicize Our Soldiers  —  The Associated Press reported recently that a trailside memorial to an American soldier killed in Afghanistan had been vandalized.  The memorial to Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petithory, adjacent to the Ashuwillticook Trail in Cheshire, Mass., was defaced with the words …

Behind Unraveling Of DeLay's Team, A Jilted Fiancée  —  Breakup of Ex-Aides Shook  —  Group Tied to Abramoff;  —  The Prosecutors Move In  —  Ms. Miller's Tearful Apology  —  WASHINGTON — The engagement of Emily Miller and Michael Scanlon was supposed to mark the coming out of a new Washington power couple.