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.
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 - Police found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least 30 people around Iraq and injured dozens more.
AP - The death toll from a bomb explosion in a predominantly Kurdish city in southeastern Turkey rose to 10 Wednesday after three victims died of their wounds. Authorities said the bomb exploded while being carried, suggested that the explosive was intended for another target and had detonated accidentally.