Senate Passes Interrogation Ban  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.  —  Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill …

Senate votes to ban waterboarding  —  WASHINGTON - Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.

Obama ‘Takes It Down a Notch’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After touring a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy that he said is on the “brink of a recession.”  —  The senator told GM workers to bear with him as he gave a more policy oriented speech.

Listen Now  —  · Sen. John McCain swept the so-called Potomac Primary Tuesday night, winning Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.  —  It's a striking contrast to last summer, when McCain's presidential campaign was on life support.  He had no money, and staffers were leaving in droves.

Identity Politics Fun Continues For The Democrats  —  So far, we have seen a number of flash points in the Democratic primaries for the presidential nomination over ethnic and gender politics.  Now we have racial and anti-Semitic politics in a Congressional primary — and once again, it involves Democrats.