Justice Weighed Firing 1 in 4  —  26 Prosecutors Were Listed As Candidates  —  The Justice Department considered dismissing many more U.S. attorneys than officials have previously acknowledged, with at least 26 prosecutors suggested for termination between February 2005 and December 2006 …

For '08 Résumés, Don't Ask Them to Fill in Blanks  —  Stealing a page from the Soviet playbook, the current crop of presidential candidates has taken to eliminating whole chapters of their histories.  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's turbulent final years as first lady?

Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason  —  Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent.

Cast Your Vote for Hillary's Campaign Song  —  Hillary Clinton is getting the 2008 voting started early, posting a YouTube video on her website this afternoon in which she urges supporters to cast their vote for her official campaign theme song.  —  Coming on the heels of her text messaging …

Stop the GOP Senate Cave-in: Call 202-225-3121 (Bumped)  —  (We're going to keep this up top for most of the day.  Lots of fresh blogging below!)  —  John McCain's gift that keeps on giving —the McCain-Kennedy coalition of those blind to border security— is getting close to its unveiling.

Unity Fractures as Palestinians Battle in Gaza  —  Gaza City was shuttered on Wednesday as gunmen took over rooftops and top-floor apartments.  Most everyone else huddled fearfully indoors on the fourth day of factional Palestinian fighting that is drawing in the Israeli military.

Search for U.S. troops continue in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - As the massive search for three U.S. soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida entered its sixth day Thursday, the military said the ambush on their convoy apparently confiscated the dog tags of one of the four American soldiers who died in the attack.

It's Our Cage, Too  —  Torture Betrays Us and Breeds New Enemies  —  Fear can be a strong motivator.  It led Franklin Roosevelt to intern tens of thousands of innocent U.S. citizens during World War II; it led to Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt, which ruined the lives of hundreds of Americans.

Rove's Worrisome Witness  —  On the day presidential senior adviser Karl Rove administered a tongue-lashing to a Republican congressman, disturbing news about his former executive assistant was spread on Capitol Hill.  GOP House members learned that Susan Ralston is requesting immunity …

War-torn Iraq 'facing collapse'  —  Iraq faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation, British foreign policy think-tank Chatham House has warned.  —  The report says the Iraqi government is now largely powerless and irrelevant in many parts of the country.

The Last Temptation of Al Gore  —  It has been five years since Tipper first urged her husband to dust off his slide show.  The couple was still climbing from the wreckage of 2000, and she was convinced that his survival depended on reconnecting with his core beliefs.

Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis  —  In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot …

Democrats seek diversity in advisers  —  WASHINGTON - When the leading Republican presidential candidates sit down with their top advisers, those with a seat at the table don't exactly look like America, to use the phrase popularized by former President Clinton.