It did not take long for the Clinton camp, in the name of “let every vote be counted,” to play the cards that had been showing through their sleeve all along: Florida and Michigan. The Clintonites seem determined to put super-delegates in a position that they have struggled all year long to avoid. “Make them say no” may replace “yes she can” as the next chant from her supporters.

At least for one more day the titanic and seemingly interminable Democratic primary continues, and only one person in America can bring it to an end: Hillary Clinton.

Very early this morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, something important happened in the electronic world inhabited by the name-brand political commentators: The conventional wisdom of the pundit class shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate.

Democrats controlling the House plan to pass legislation this week funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year.

The plan would give anti-war lawmakers a vote on nonbinding language setting the goal of withdrawing most combat troops by December 2009, said a senior House Democratic aide, though Senate Republicans have the votes to filibuster the move.

Hillary Clinton's campaign today indicated that she intended to fight on even as her hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination dwindled.

Clinton failed to close the gap on Barack Obama in two key primaries last night, winning Indiana by a slim margin - 51% to 49% - but seeing that outweighed by her rival's 56% to 42% landslide in North Carolina.

Clinton had needed to win both North Carolina and Indiana, the last two big states left in the contest, to stand a chance of reining in Obama.

President Bush’s choice to lead the principal agency charged with coordinating both counterterrorism operations and synthesizing intelligence says killing and capturing jihadists is one facet of the wider war, which must focus on the battlefield of ideas.

Gay marriage advocates have won a partial victory in New York, as the state’s highest court has left in place a lower court ruling that recognized a lesbian couple as being married.

The Court of Appeals declined yesterday to review the mid-level appellate court’s decision to recognize the couple’s Canadian marriage, the first such ruling by an appellate court in New York State.

For now, that lower court decision remains binding across the state.

U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out.At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don't have proper documentation.

Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game’s publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday.

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money. The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.