Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon  —  Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers  —  Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.

Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News."  The tape is titled A Message to the People.  This is his first video without a mask …

CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Data  —  Post, Others Received Information; CIA Investigations Ongoing  —  Washington Post staff writer Dafna Linzer was online Tuesday, April 25, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the firing of CIA intelligence officer Mary McCarthy for leaking classified information …

President Discusses Energy Policy  —  Washington, D.C.  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush's Four-Part Plan to Confront High Gasoline Prices  —  In Focus: Energy  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Bob, thanks for the introduction.  It's always good to be introduced by somebody who is referred to as the "Promoter in Chief."

"Cole Fire: Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire a notorious anti-Israel professor" (UPDATED)  —  From the good news / bad news file.  From John Fund, WSJ: … [My emphases]  —  Fabulous!  And predictable: any outcry over the welcoming of the Other at Yale was sure to be muted at best …

Bush Faces Dissent From Republicans on Climate Change (Update1)  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Representative Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican, says he ``pooh-poohed'' global warming until he trekked to the South Pole in January.  —  ``Now, I think we should be concerned,'' says Inglis …

Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa.  —  For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …

Hugh Hewitt's Odd Logic  —  If newspapers were less liberal they wouldn't be losing so many readers.  That's what conservative media activists have convinced themselves is behind the steady decline in American newspaper readership; a decline conservatives take great delight in.

A moral responsibility  —  JIM LEHRER: Do you agree in principle with that?  And we'll get back to your point earlier about what avenues were open to her if she felt the way she did.  —  RAY MCGOVERN: I think, Jim, this was an exceptional case.  —  JIM LEHRER: An exceptional case?

The Left's Big Ideas  —  So Democratic Party leaders met over the weekend in New Orleans, gleefully criticized President Bush's stewardship and issued a "vision" statement that most pundits and reporters saw as less than visionary and not terribly specific.  —  Perfectly true …

Snow In May?  —  A week after White House press secretary Scott McClellan suddenly resigned, and — nothing.  —  Late last week, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten directly (firmly but politely) asked senior administration officials to stop unburdening themselves to the process-hungry Washington press corps.

Monday's act heroic after 30 years  —  Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters  —  LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America.  It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …

One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand  —  The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?  —  A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."

Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe  —  Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel's inquiry into the Bush administration's handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off …