Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon  —  Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers  —  Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.

Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News."  The tape is titled A Message to the People.  This is his first video without a mask …

CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Data  —  Post, Others Received Information; CIA Investigations Ongoing  —  Washington Post staff writer Dafna Linzer was online Tuesday, April 25, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the firing of CIA intelligence officer Mary McCarthy for leaking classified information …

Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?  —  When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence" with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas …

Jane Jacobs dies  —  Jane Jacobs, the urban expert and social activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died Tuesday morning at Toronto Western Hospital after about a year of up and down health problems.  —  She was taken to Toronto Western Hospital on Saturday after having suffered what appeared to be a stroke.

Snow In May?  —  A week after White House press secretary Scott McClellan suddenly resigned, and — nothing.  —  Late last week, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten directly (firmly but politely) asked senior administration officials to stop unburdening themselves to the process-hungry Washington press corps.

Bush Faces Dissent From Republicans on Climate Change (Update1)  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Representative Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican, says he ``pooh-poohed'' global warming until he trekked to the South Pole in January.  —  ``Now, I think we should be concerned,'' says Inglis …

Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, Even as Kurds Dig In  —  Control of Iraqi City Has Long Been in Dispute  —  KIRKUK, Iraq — Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city — widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war …

Monday's act heroic after 30 years  —  Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters  —  LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America.  It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …

Iran Ready to Transfer Nuclear Know-How  —  Iran's supreme leader said Tuesday that the country is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to other countries.  Meanwhile, Tehran threatened to halt all cooperation with the U.N. atomic energy agency if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions …

Blogs link families with children at war  —  Carla Lois started an online diary - a weblog - just before the army sent her son Noah to Iraq in January 2005.  —  Eight months later, it paid off in a way she must always have prayed it would not, when she posted a terse item headlined: "My Son Has Been Injured."

Tuesday: My beloved rests in peace  —  My precious and beautiful wife, Allie, passed away during the night.  I found her lifeless body on the floor of the bathroom at 3:30 a.m. The paramedics did everything they could, but she was already gone.  We have no idea what happened.  She was young (41).