Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status  —  WASHINGTON, April 10 — Waving American flags and blue banners that read "We Are America," throngs of cheering, chanting immigrants and their supporters converged on the nation's capital and in scores of other cities on Monday calling …

Centre-left claims Italy victory  —  Italy's centre-left opposition has won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, official results say.  —  It won 49.8% of the vote against 49.7% for the centre-right, according to interior ministry figures.  —  The head of the centre-left coalition …

DA Plans To Proceed With Case Despite No DNA Matches  —  Defense Attorneys Hope 'Community Healing' Can Begin  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said he plans to move forward with his case against three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team despite DNA results …

Wowie Zahawie  —  Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger.  —  In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.

AP prints Bush's spin on Libby leak, that he was trying to "spread the truth," yet fails to mention that in fact Bush knew the info leaked was false  —  by John in DC - 4/11/2006 12:27:00 AM  —  The Associated Press is running a story with Bush's latest comments on why he authorized certain …

Facing Down Iran  —  Our lives depend on it.  —  Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia.

FRANCE SURRENDERS  —  France has scrapped its proposed youth jobs laws that allows workers in their first two years of employment to be fired at will.  The idea behind the bill, backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was to give employers more incentive to hire the young by alleviating …

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House  —  WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

Annex Mexico?  —  One difference between the demonstrations in France and the demonstrations in America: The French are demonstrating for the right not to work hard, while the demonstrators in America mostly want to work.  —  And most of them, I think, really want that.

It's that Time of the Month  —  It's time for me to do my update on Iraq based on the Iraq Index from the Brookings Report.  I was on vacation last week, so its one week late.  —  First off, US soldiers killed in Iraq continues to fall.  This is the 5th straight month:

Getting Numbers Right: An Essential Part of Good Reporting  —  Having escaped from ten years of doing the Economic Reporting Review (ERR), I'm beginning "Beat the Press," with the single topic that took up the most cyberspace in ERR — putting numbers in context.

VIDEO/PHOTO ESSAY: VIVA LA RAZA IN D.C.  —  So, my Sony Handycam and I attended the illegal alien demonstration in D.C. yesterday.  Here are some of the more interesting moments captured on tape:  —  The goofy, out-of-place-looking, non-Spanish speaker on the right was standing on a street corner …

The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order  —  SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Like many American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry — but hers has an unusual geographic reach.  —  "Would you like your Coke and orange juice medium or large?"

BOR Endorsements: Election Day  —  So we've hit Election Day, and it's time to sum up our BOR endorsements.  We already have Barbara Radnofsky for Senate and Ted Ankrum for CD-10.  —  The following are written after consulting the full BOR writing crew.  Among those that responded …