Bush plan would withhold terror evidence  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information.

Controversy Over 9/11 Film Hits Press — Here's a Sneak Preview  —  NEW YORK Just bubbling up from the blogs into the mainstream press — a New York Times article appears today — is debate over the "The Path to 911," the TV movie to be aired on ABC this coming Sept. 10 and 11.

Republican Rift Over Wiretapping Widens  —  Party at Odds on Surveillance Legislation  —  Deepening Republican divisions over the future of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may jeopardize GOP leaders' hopes of making terrorism surveillance legislation a centerpiece of their final legislative push this month.

Romney bars state security for Iranian's Harvard visit  —  Cites unacceptable use of funds on `a terrorist'  —  Governor Mitt Romney declared yesterday he would not allow any state resources to be used to protect a former Iranian president during his visit to the Boston area this weekend …

Time for Answers  —  For three years, Washington has been periodically consumed with the question of who unmasked a covert C.I.A. agent to the columnist Robert Novak.  It has been a huge distraction for the White House, resulted in the unjustified jailing of one reporter …

Pakistan Denies Bin Laden Gets a Pass  —  Brian Ross Reports:  —  The government of Pakistan today denied it would allow Osama bin Laden to avoid capture under terms of a peace agreement it signed with Taliban leaders in the country's North Waziristan area.

Florida Primary: Winners and Losers  —  Florida voters made their primary picks yesterday.  The day brought few surprises but — as always — a handful of winners and losers.  (For complete results from Florida, click here.)  —  WINNERS  —  Sen. Bill Nelson (D): Rep. Katherine Harris' victory …

SHE LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD TO GO POTTY  —  E-mail katiecbs@nypost.com .  —  KATIE COURIC last night underwent her second on-air colonoscopy.  —  Watching the procedure was not a horribly painful event.  Nor was it an experience I would volunteer to repeat any time soon.

Illness Persisting in 9/11 Workers, Big Study Finds  —  The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.

Best defence against terrorism is a split with US, say voters  —  MOST people believe that the Blair Government's foreign policy has increased significantly the risk of terrorist attacks and now want Britain to distance itself from America and set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, according to a poll for The Times.

Civilian nuclear power effort widens  —  WASHINGTON - Even as it marshals a diplomatic campaign to deny Iran nuclear weapons technology, the Bush administration is pressing a plan to broaden the use of nuclear power for civilian purposes around the globe, a plan that some weapons experts …

'That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin'  —  The world mourns.  World-famous wildlife warrior Steve Irwin has died a hero, doing the thing he loved, filming a sequence for a new TV series.  He was supposed to have been making a new documentary …

Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's congressional lobbying-and-bribery investigation is looking into whether former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's wife received money from a lobbying firm for a no-show job, recent FBI interviews indicate.

Blair tells aides he quits May 31  —  TONY Blair will leave 10 Downing Street for the last time as Prime Minister more than a decade after his historic 1997 landslide win.  —  The Sun can reveal that he has finally decided to step down as Labour leader on May 31 next year — exactly ten years and 30 days after becoming PM.