Court strikes down school integration plans, ends Term  —  UPDATED to 11 a.m.  —  Concluding its current Term with a historic ruling on race in public policy, the Supreme Court divided 5-4 on Thursday in striking down voluntary integration plans in the public schools of Seattle and Louisville.

Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys.  —  His decision was denounced as …

Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan"  —  Boy, it looks like the pressure from Elizabeth Edwards is really getting to Ann Coulter.  Seems to be really rattling her badly.  Give this a watch, from MSNBC this morning:  —  Woah.  —  Incidentally, the Coulter column …

'I assume Cheney will get a Katrina trailer,' Republican mocks  —  A group of Democrats made their case Thursday afternoon to cut all funding for the executive branch office of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives.  The move prompted a Republican Congressman …

Senate Hands Down a Major Defeat on Immigration Bill  —  The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was trounced this morning by a bipartisan filibuster, with the political right and left overwhelming a coalition of Republicans and Democrats who had been seeking compromise …

46-53, immigration bill goes down in defeat  —  The comprehensive immigration reform bill that has dodged attacks from the left and right for weeks, survived "poison pill" amendments, and was once pulled from the Senate schedule failed its most important test Thursday.  Passage of the legislation now appears unlikely.

FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low  —  NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around.  President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president's job performance.

Why WSJ reporters didn't show up for work Thursday  —  A statement from Wall Street Journal reporters:  —  Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning.  —  We did so for two reasons.  —  First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence …

Around the filter Mitt goes  —  Hillary has her Hub and now Mitt has his MittTV.  —  This is what Ben Smith wrote in describing Clinton's efforts to get out her message via her own internal news, well, hub: … Romney is taking similar, if for now less ambitious, steps with his own internal video network.

Today in History  —  Today's defeat of the Senate amnesty bill was more than a run-of-the-mill legislative victory, representing as it did a self-organizing public's defeat of combined force of Big Business, (some of) Big Labor, Big Media, Big Religion, Big Philanthropy, Big Academia, and Big Government.