Bill Clinton Criticizes Bush on Libby Move  —  Former President Bill Clinton criticized President Bush on Tuesday for commuting the prison sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. and tried to draw a distinction from his own controversial pardons.  —  In Iowa to promote the presidential candidacy of his wife …

A Stark Edge in Race for '08 Cash  —  New Numbers Heavily Favor The Democrats  —  Campaign contributors to the 2008 presidential candidates heavily favored Democrats in the three-month period that ended Saturday, giving three dollars to the party's leading contenders for every two dollars they gave to the top Republican candidates.

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: You ceased to be the President of the United States  —  Keith Olbermann delivers arguably his most pointed and most powerful Special Comment yet on the ramifications of Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence.  —  Download (11810) |  Play (15325) Download (5851) |

Washington, Lincoln Most Popular Presidents: Nixon, Bush Least Popular  —  Seven American Presidents are viewed favorably by at least 80% of all Americans.  Those esteemed seven are led by the first President George Washington.  The Father of our Country is viewed favorably by 94% of Americans.

BBC Gaza journalist Alan Johnston freed  —  GAZA (Reuters) - Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March.  —  "It is just the most fantastic thing to be free.

'Wonderfully Spared'  —  Our Founders were talented men—and lucky ones too.  —  "You and I have been wonderfully spared," Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams in 1812.  "Of the signers of the Declaration of Independence I see now living not more than half a dozen on your side of the Potomak, and, on this side, myself alone."

Technology Eases the Ride to Higher Tolls  —  There is a stretch of the Garden State Parkway that used to feel like the tollbooth capital of America.  In a span of 100 miles — from Pascack Valley, in northern New Jersey, to Barnegat, along the coast — eight different toll plazas greeted drivers.

Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq  —  New U.S. data show how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of the war-torn nation.  —  The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops …

Website bomb-making lessons to be outlawed across Europe  —  David Charter, Europe Correspondent and Jonathan Richards  —  Placing instructions on how to make a bomb on the internet will become a criminal offence across Europe under plans outlined by Brussels yesterday.

Mayor reveals romantic link with TV newscaster  —  Both seek privacy but the admission raises questions about ethics.  —  At 4 p.m. on June 8, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa issued a terse statement announcing that he and his wife, Corina, were separating after 20 years of marriage.

'When In the Course of Human Events'  —  For a bunch of white guys with bad hair the Founding Fathers were really onto something.  —  Please take a few minutes to read the entire (original) text of the Declaration of Independence.  Then think about where American has been in the last 231 years and …

Prosecution Padilla expert admonished for appearing on CNN  —  MIAMI — The federal judge in Jose Padilla's terrorism support case asked the prosecution's star expert witness to forego future media appearances after he spoke to CNN on Tuesday about the bomb investigation in Britain.