Clinton expected to look to Obama for help on debt  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In politics, money talks.  And money is likely to be an important factor in discussions between Barack Obama's advisers and the debt-saddled Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign.  —  Clinton will likely seek help …

ADVISER SAYS MCCAIN BACKS BUSH WIRETAPS  —  The position appears to bring Senator John McCain into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive power pushed by the Bush administration.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Bill Clinton faces benching in fall presidential campaign  —  WASHINGTON - The Obama camp is preparing to embrace Hillary Clinton enthusiastically - but they're reaching for the 10-foot pole to keep her rabid husband at bay.  —  Bill Clinton's erratic and increasingly sulfuric behavior …

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?

The Democratic Gamble  —  IN A YEAR SO TILTED TOWARD DEMOCRATS, HILLARY CLINTON MIGHT HAVE REPRESENTED A SAFER BET TO ACCUMULATE THE BARE MINIMUM OF 270 ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE.  —  Sat.  —  It's difficult to overstate Barack Obama's achievement in wresting …

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.

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 …