Court Denies Appeal From Gitmo Detainees  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.

Clinton Shatters Record for Fundraising  —  Edwards Also Passes 1st-Quarter Benchmark  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician has previously raised at this point in a presidential election …

New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise  —  As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network's operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims  —  Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.  —  It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

Crime Intensifies Debate Over Taping of Suspects  —  The account, buried in a mountain of documents assembled for a Congressional investigation, describes a decidedly local yet brutal crime: a Navajo man charged with beating his girlfriend nearly to death and then hanging her by a rope outside …

4 G.I.'s Among Dead in Iraq; McCain Cites Progress  —  Mortar attacks, suicide car bombs, roadside bombs, ambushes and gun battles killed at least two dozen people on Sunday, including four American soldiers, the authorities said.  —  The American military command said the soldiers …

Rightist Indignation  —  GOP Insider Vic Gold Launches a Broadside at the State of the Party  —  Vic Gold heard from Lynne Cheney a few weeks before George W. Bush was sworn in as president in January 2001.  Cheney had an assignment for her old friend: She wanted Gold to write the profiles …

Balking at the First Pitch  —  Bush's Skipping of Opening Day May Perpetuate a Ritual's Slow Decline  —  This is a baseball story, so let's get right to the stats.  —  Today is Washington's 65th Opening Day since 1910, when William H. Taft gave us a tradition: the ceremonial first pitch by the president.

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER COSPONSORS FEINGOLD BILL TO REDEPLOY TROOPS FROM IRAQ  —  Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission …

The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election  —  If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up . . . John Edwards.  —  The same goes for front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the race …

Free for All  —  The group of young intellectuals who often gathered at Ayn Rand's Manhattan home in the early 1950s had a couple of different names for themselves.  One was the "Class of '43," after the year that Rand published her first successful novel, "The Fountainhead."

The Once and Future Republic of Vermont  —  The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.  —  Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again.  We think the time to make that happen is now.  Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big …

JUDI'S JOB WITH PUP-KILLER FIRM  —  Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.

First They Came for the Jews  —  A prosecution under the Espionage Act threatens the First Amendment.  —  Early in June 2004, an employee of the American Israel Pubic Affairs Committee, AIPAC—better known by its media tag, "the powerful Israeli lobby"—received an urgent phone call.

Obama's Narrator  —  I.  —  When Barack Obama decided in January that he would run for president in 2008 and quietly began calling up his staff members and close supporters to tell them so, the choice had many effects, but one of the most immediate and parochial was that it sent Obama's chief political …

Seeking a Car That Gets 100 Miles a Gallon  —  The race is on to develop a commercially viable car that can travel 100 miles on a gallon of gasoline.  —  The same group that awarded $10 million to a team that built the first private spacecraft to leave the earth's atmosphere is expected …