Jill Carroll Statement  —  RAMSTEIN AIRBASE, GERMANY — I'm so happy to be free and am looking forward to spending a lot of time with my family.  I want to express my deep appreciation to all the people who worked so long and hard for my release.  I am humbled by the sympathy and support expressed …

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 …

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 …

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.

New York Times Picks Up Borders CEO Letter  —  PUBLISHES AP REPORT:  —  Click to enlarge.  —  Covering the web-wide kerfuffle and building blogger-led boycott of Borders since our publication of the Borders CEO's personal letter to leading bloggers yesterday (See item directly below this one.) the opening text reads:

Harris' Senate campaign 'imploding'  —  With more key workers set to flee, it could be the final lap for the troubled race.  New hires are expected.  —  The last of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' key staffers appear ready to abandon her campaign for the U.S. Senate in a wave of resignations expected to start this weekend.

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.

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.

Civilians in Iraq Flee Mixed Areas as Killings Rise  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 1 — The war in Iraq has entered a bloodier phase, with American casualties steadily declining over the past five months while the killings of Iraqi civilians have risen tremendously in sectarian violence …

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.