CNN reporter slams Drudge's charge that he 'heckled' McCain; Exclusive video confirms his claim  —  CNN reporter Michael Ware this morning hit back at news aggregator Matt Drudge who accused him on Sunday of 'heckling' Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham in a Baghdad press conference.

Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court  —  The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider greenhouse gases as pollutants, in a blow to the White House.  —  "Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition …

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 …

Exclusive: Iran Nuclear Bomb Could Be Possible by 2009  —  Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:  —  Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.

GOP '08 fundraising totals mark new high  —  BOSTON - Republican Mitt Romney reported raising $23 million for his presidential campaign during the first three months of the year, shaking up the GOP field and rivaling the total reported a day earlier by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

April 2, 2007 - Giuliani Widens Lead Over Clinton In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gore Squeaks Past Obama In Democratic Primary  —  Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has opened double-digit leads over top 2008 Democratic presidential contenders in Florida …

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 …

The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis  —  A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.

AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq  —  TOKYO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.

McCain's Statement: Disappointment..  —  From a release:

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.

Stand-Up Comity, One Night Only  —  At the Gridiron Dinner, a Splitting And Joining of Sides  —  Once again there was the usual air of palsy-walsyness between politicians and journalists at the annual Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night.  These anachronistic affairs are like fairy tales told at bedtime …