Clinton, Obama meet in Washington  —  They confer after she disavows push to make her vice president  —  WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton met late Thursday with Barack Obama, a day after saying she would end her quest for the Democratic nomination and endorse the Illinois senator.

Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps  —  WASHINGTON — A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush's program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories …

Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have “been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service …

Obama clarifies united J'lem comment  —  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama did not rule out Palestinian sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem when he called for Israel's capital to remain “undivided,” his campaign told The Jerusalem Post Thursday.

McCain bumbles the delivery  —  NEW ORLEANS - As Democrats buzzed this week about their new de facto nominee, his historic candidacy and the unlikely political demise of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican circles were humming with another topic.  —  The topic: Is there a way John McCain …

McCain says he won't run from Bush in campaign  —  FORT LAUDERDALE — Republican John McCain said he won't try to “separate” himself from a weakened President Bush or his unpopular handling of the war in Iraq to try to win the general election against Barack Obama, who has made opposition to the war a focus of the Democratic campaign.

IS THE DC CHECKPOINT PLAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL?  The Washington Post has a detailed story on DC's plans for a “military style checkpoint” to stop gun violence.  Eugene mentioned it briefly below, but I wanted to blog at some length about the legal issues.  It turns out that there's …

Clinton's exit: When push came to shove  —  In the end, the same man who ushered Hillary Clinton into electoral politics nine years ago pushed her out.  —  Wednesday, Clinton was asking supporters to wait - it was unclear for what — and to give her time to gather her thoughts.

For Obama, a Ticket Test  —  WASHINGTON — An axiom.  When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies?  When the presumptive nominee considers this or that running mate, he thinks: What if I live?

Questions About The Secret Meeting — Now, With Answers  —  There was a meeting.  It was not at Hillary Clinton's house.  (I'm betting it was at Jim Johnson's Georgetown condo.)  Staff worked out the schedules.  Obama wanted to talk about bringing the party together.  —  1. Who asked for the meeting?

$45 trillion needed to combat warming  —  TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.