Officials: Hastert "In the Mix" of Congressional Bribery Investigation  —  Brian Ross Reports:  —  The Speaker of the House Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigtaion by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress …

Cheney may be called in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney could be called to testify in the perjury case against his former chief of staff, a special prosecutor said in a court filing Wednesday.  —  Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Cheney …

Fragile Senate Coalition Set To Pass Bill on Immigration  —  The Senate moved to the verge of passing landmark immigration legislation yesterday, scheduling a final vote for today on a bill that would tighten the borders while allowing millions of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and permitting new guest workers to come and go.

The Shadow of a Marriage  —  The two sides of Hillary Rodham Clinton — the opposites that make her potential presidential candidacy such a gamble — came into sharp focus Tuesday morning at the National Press Club.  —  For the better part of an hour, the senator from New York held forth …

Ask Mr. Science  —  The moral flaws of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.  —  Relax: The Al Gore movie has no sex scene.  Gore is the only presidential candidate who has made out on national television, so this was a legitimate worry.  Otherwise, An Inconvenient Truth could use some action.

Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution  —  The FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson's congressional office was an aggressive tactic that broke a long-standing political custom.  But while it might violate the spirit of the Constitution, it might not violate the letter …

THE MCCAIN-WYLY RAPPROCHEMENT ENDS:  —  The other day we noted the supreme irony of John McCain teaming up with the Wyly brothers to raise money for his political action committee.  As several news outlets recently reported, Sam and Charles Wyly were scheduled to be co-hosts for a major Texas fundraiser for McCain on May 15 in Dallas.

Expanded Worker Checks Would Use Faulty System  —  A federal database program with a checkered track record could dramatically expand to affect every U.S. employer and worker under provisions of the immigration legislation being considered by Congress.  —  The program is intended …

The World's Snappiest Comebacks  —  If one will be remembered for a single remark, as the recently departed Lloyd Bentsen is, let it be for the perfect put-down.  Most of us never get to experience the joy of excoriating an opponent with a dead-on, devastating riposte.  We always think of it too late.