Contact: Michael Huttner 303-931-4547 cell  —  DENVER, Colo.-On orders from Senator John McCain's security detail, Denver police escorted a 61-year-old woman away who was waiting in line to attend a so-called town hall meeting with McCain that was billed as open to the public.

A Clintonian at Fox  —  Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel.  —  The network is expected to announce …

Washington Post Signals Shift With a New Editor  —  Signaling a generational change at one of the nation's most influential newspapers, the new publisher of The Washington Post on Monday selected an outsider as the paper's top editor.  —  Marcus W. Brauchli, a former top editor of The Wall Street Journal …

Put War Powers Back Where They Belong  —  THE most agonizing decision we make as a nation is whether to go to war.  Our Constitution ambiguously divides war powers between the president (who is the commander in chief) and Congress (which has the power of the purse and the power to declare war).

Supplies for Katrina victims went to Mississippi agencies  —  CNN Special Investigations Unit  —  BILOXI, Mississippi (CNN) — Prisons in Mississippi got coffee makers, pillowcases and dinnerware — all intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina.  —  The state's Department of Wildlife …

America's special grace  —  To ascribe a special grace to America is outrageous, as outrageous as the idea of special grace itself.  Why shouldn't everyone be saved?  Why aren't all individuals, nations, peoples and cultures equally deserving?  History seems awfully unfair …

Lurching With Abandon  —  In one of the numbers from “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye sings, with a mixture of emotions: “We haven't got the man ... we had when we began.”  —  Back in January when Barack Obama pulled off his stunning win in the Iowa caucuses, and people were lining up in the cold …

Internal Politics Heat Up at McCain Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current ones, always a recipe for disquiet.

Tough Questions at McCain's First Town Hall Meeting  —  Elizabeth Holmes reports from Denver on the presidential race.  —  John McCain's first town hall meeting of his new campaign began seamlessly.  Everything the campaign could plan for was in place, complete with a rug boasting McCain's logo for him to stand on.

Taking aim at the next Karl Rove  —  Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations.  —  The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly …

When Fox News Is the Story  —  Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. … Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) …

Candidates Diverge on How to Save Social Security  —  Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, taking on the financially fragile “third rail of American politics” that Congress and recent presidents have been unable to repair.

Claim: Kids who say ‘yuck’ may be racist  —  Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.  —  The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults …