What most concerns senior Republican strategists as they assess the latest reports on presidential fundraising is the big collective advantage enjoyed by the Democratic candidates versus the Republicans.
What kind of economic policy advice is Mitt Romney getting? One of the people doing some idea work for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and current 2008 GOP presidential hopeful, is Cesar Conda. Conda is former assistant for domestic policy under Vice President Cheney and a longtime policy wonk around Washington, D.C.
Before Congress moved it up three weeks, daylight saving time was scheduled to kick in on April 1. I know because a pair of my clocks finally leapt forward an hour. They were my radio-controlled clocks, which promised to make the change on time, no matter when Congress decreed it would occur.
AP - An FBI agent who was killed Thursday when a stakeout team opened fire on three armed bank robbery suspects might have been shot accidentally by another agent, the FBI said.
AP - Fifteen Royal Navy crew members freed from Iran enjoyed their first night on English soil Thursday. Amid the relief, champagne and tearful embraces, however, some Britons raised questions about the sailors' conduct and their apparent confessions in captivity.
AP - The U.S. military reported Thursday that eight U.S. soldiers were killed in the Baghdad area over the past three days as militants fought back against a security plan in its eighth week. An Army helicopter went down south of the capital, wounding four, after an Iraqi official said insurgents fired on it.
An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq is receiving protection from the American military despite being considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. The MEK is blamed for bombings in Iran but also credited with helping expose Tehran's secret nuclear program. The U.S. designation of MEK as a terror group means no American can give support to its members.
The sparkling blue waters off Miami's Julia Tuttle Causeway look as if they were taken from a postcard. But the causeway's only inhabitants see little paradise in their surroundings. Five men -- all convicted of child abuse -- are living in the open along the causeway because of restrictions on where they can legally live in Miami.