MSNBC reports Rove believes he is in legal jeopardy  —  Karl Rove has described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever, MSNBC is reporting.  —  RAW STORY has also learned that an MSNBC report tonight will reveal …

Not A Good Sign For Snow: WH Reporter Complains About Fox On TV  —  From a gaggle with Scott McClellan today:  —  We're fairly sure "Q" is : Jim VandeHei  —  Q It's come to my attention that there's been requests — this is a serious question — to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied.

Red Lights on Capitol Hill?  —  The Wall Street Journal reported today that indicted former California Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham may not have limited his good times to partying on a rented yacht.  It turns out the FBI is currently investigating two defense contractors …

U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace  —  Gas prices are rising, as are mortgage rates.  House prices in many once-hot markets have started slipping.  The American automobile industry shows no sign of recovery.  And the paychecks of most workers have not even kept up with inflation over the last four years.

2 Teens Charged in Attack at Texas Party  —  Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party, authorities said.  —  The attackers forced the boy out of the Saturday night house party …

Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind  —  Key lawmakers oppose his bid to block project  —  WASHINGTON — As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project …

BREAKING NEWS in the Andrea Clark Case  —  [Editor's Note- representatives of St. Luke's are being contacted and offered an opportunity to submit their perspective on this issue for publication on LST.]  —  UPDATE: I have received an email from Andrea's sister, Melanie, as well as talked with her on the phone.

'Atlas' pic mapped  —  Ayn Rand's most ambitious novel may finally be brought to the bigscreen after years of false starts.  —  Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to "Atlas Shrugged" from Howard and Karen Baldwin ("Ray"), who will produce with John Aglialoro.

Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.

Senate report: Dismantle FEMA  —  WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina exposed flaws in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security that are "too substantial to mend," and FEMA should be dismantled and rebuilt inside the troubled department, according to the final report by Senate investigators.

WHO YOU CALLIN' STUPID?  Methinks a lot of folks out there are too quick to underestimate the intelligence of highly trained professional politicians.  The basic dilemma facing Democrats at the moment regarding gasoline goes as follows:  —  High gas prices are very unpopular with the public.

Party Hearty  —  As The Daily Politics has noted, Union College's newspaper, The Concordiensis (affectionately known around campus as "The Concordy") reports on its front page today that U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, attended a registered, on-campus frat party on April 22.

State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me  —  Warren Kremer Paino Advertising has filed a 3 count multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against me for the reporting I've done in this blog.  They are claiming defamation, libel, and copyright infringement.

Silencing The Squeaky Wheels  —  The CIA has imposed new and tighter restrictions on the books, articles, and opinion pieces published by former employees who are still contractors with the intelligence agency.  According to several former CIA officials affected by the new policy …

Join The 101st Fighting Keyboardists!  —  Our friends on the port side of the blogosphere have had quite a time tossing around funny little nicknames for those of us who support the war on terror and use our blogs to express our convictions about it.  We've seen the names here at CQ …

Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran  —  Russia and China on Thursday warned against escalating the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.  The call came on the eve of an eagerly awaited report on whether the country has met United Nations demands.

Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report  —  The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke's lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men, filing a 1996 complaint claiming she had been assaulted three years earlier when she was 14.

Dana Priest Responds to Criticism of Secret Prisons Story  —  NEW YORK Ever since she earned a widely-expected Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for her Washington Post exclusive on CIA "secret prisons" in Europe, Dana Priest has been attacked by conservative commentators …

Mission Accomplished: A look back at the media's fawning coverage of Bush's premature declaration of victory in Iraq  —  On May 1, 2003, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln aboard an S-3B Viking jet, emerged from the aircraft in full flight gear, and proceeded to …