Eliot Spitzer won an overwhelming victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor and Hillary Rodham Clinton handily defeated an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
Senator Lincoln Chafee won the Republican primary in Rhode Island, and Representative Benjamin L. Cardin and Kweisi Mfume lead in Maryland’s Democratic primary.
The talk this week among conservative House staffers and GOP strategists is that a Democratic victory in the fall elections could lead to a wholesale junking of the House Republican leadership.
Nearly 10 years after Princess Diana died in a car crash in France, you might think Scotland Yard would be close to wrapping up its investigation into whether any foul play was involved. Yet the publication this week of a new exposé by Di's butler, Paul Burrell, has grabbed investigators' attention. Burrell's first book on Diana, A Royal Duty, dished plenty of dirt. Now the new book, The Way We Were, contains further info, reveals my colleague Richard J. Newman–like Burrell's insistence that a splashy ring given to Di by her playboy pal Dodi Al-Fayed was a friendship gesture, not an engagement pledge. Newman says that's relevant because some influential people, like Dodi's billionaire father Mohamed Al-Fayed, think Di may have been murdered to prevent her from marrying a Muslim. Last week, the book's publisher, Harper U.K., let Scotland Yard have an advance read of the book, to look for clues. And Burrell, who stands to make multimillions from The Way We Were, says he has held nothing back from Scotland Yard and will continue to help with the inquiry.
As a probe into Hewlett-Packard's use of private phone records widened, Chairman Patricia Dunn announced today she would step down next year. Current Chief Executive Mark Hurd will take over.
AP - Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
AP - Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, exchanging fire outside the compound's walls with gunmen who shouted "God is great" and tried to storm in with automatic weapons and hand grenades.
AP - Republicans and Democrats tore into each over war policy Tuesday, set off by a presidential speech the White House insisted was nonpolitical. A GOP leader said Democrats seemed "more interested in protecting the terrorists" than shielding fellow Americans.
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