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Hillary's pollster Mark Penn recently claimed that she was leading the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in all states in all the polls. Not so fast, Mark. The latest Rasmussen poll, concluded on April 26, shows Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. Clinton for the first time, albeit by the slim margin of 32-30. Two weeks ago, Rasmussen had the race tied; before that, he had her constantly in the lead. Almost all the national polls show Clinton's lead dwindling, and most show her with only a single-digit lead over Obama. The sense of Hillary's inevitability as the Democratic...

A syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze. It also is a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident. The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die. Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents. Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 30 (UPI) -- Sweden's National Democrat party plans to open pre-schools for only ethnic Swedish children, starting in Uppsala and Soderalje. Within the next few weeks, the political party will start submitting applications to various local councils to open the Swedes-only schools, the online Swedish newspaper The Local reported Monday. "It is very important that we can build up a safe and Swedish environment for our children. They can have the best possible start in life by growing up with Swedish culture," party leader Marc Abramsson said about why Sweden needs racially pure pre-schools.

Science Daily — Ethanol is widely touted as an eco-friendly, clean-burning fuel. But if every vehicle in the United States ran on fuel made primarily from ethanol instead of pure gasoline, the number of respiratory-related deaths and hospitalizations likely would increase, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson. His findings are published in the April 18 online edition of the journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). Using ethanol-based fuel instead of gasoline would likely increase the ozone-related death rate in Los Angeles by 9 percent in 2020, according to a new study by atmospheric...

CLAREMONT, Calif. Bill Clinton told an audience at Claremont McKenna College yesterday that he's ready to serve should his wife become president.

WASHINGTON — Former Tennessee Republican Sen. Fred Thompson told FOX News on Wednesday that he's in remission from cancer. "I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't satisfied in my own mind as to the nature of it and the fact that not only will I have an average life span, but in the meantime, I will not be affected in any way by it," Thompson said. "Now of course nobody knows the future but that has been in the history for almost three years now in terms of no symptoms and no sickness."

As many wonder if Bush will pardon Lewis Libby, TIME takes a look back at notorious presidential pardons in American history Whiskey Rebels Confederate Citizens Jimmy Hoffa Richard Nixon Vietnam Draft Dodgers Felt and Miller George Steinbrenner Caspar Weinberger Patty Hearst Marc Rich

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters Life!) - People from families prone to Parkinson's who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease, researchers said on Monday in a finding that reinforces earlier observations and offers potential paths to treatment. The researchers doubt that smoking and caffeine protect from Parkinson's, but say the information offers clues about how environment works with genes to cause disease. Dr. William Scott of the University of Miami school of medicine, who led the study, said the findings point clearly to dopamine -- a message-carrying chemical in the brain that falls to low levels...

With the White House and Congress talking once again about immigration reform, a new Field Poll shows a large majority of Californians support giving illegal immigrants an opportunity to stay in this country and gain legal status. President Bush visited Arizona on Monday to launch a new campaign for a multi-pronged overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, a modified version of his proposal that stalled in Congress last year. And the poll released today shows Californians favor the general outlines of the president's proposal - a path to legal status for residents who are now here illegally, a temporary worker...

Science Daily — Will you lose weight and keep it off if you diet? No, probably not, UCLA researchers report in the April issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association. "You can initially lose 5 to 10 percent of your weight on any number of diets, but then the weight comes back," said Traci Mann, UCLA associate professor of psychology and lead author of the study. "We found that the majority of people regained all the weight, plus more. Sustained weight loss was found only in a small minority of participants, while complete weight regain was...

Senator Barack Obama is coming back to New York City today, for some late TV night face time AND to raise even more money. While Senator Hillary Clinton's camp is playing it cool and Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson telling the Daily News, "We're thrilled with our hometown support," the Post lists all the former Clinton donors who are now supporting Obama. Obama has two fundraisers on his agenda and he'll be appearing on Late Night with David Letterman tonight. Pollsters and consultants say that as much money as Obama raises in New York, Clinton is sure to win the state...

Al Gore was in Oslo a week ago giving his 'inconvenient truth' global warming speech to a crowd that included the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Critics are saying he was there to lobby the committee because he has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Norwegian members of parliament Børge Brende and Heidi Sørensen, who joined in their nomination despite political differences, (Heidi Sørensen is a member of the Socialist Left Party), jointly say that global climate is a fight for peace.

The 2007 National Hurricane Conference ended in New Orleans on Friday with its principal speaker unleashing a fiery indictment of former Vice-President and environmental activist Al Gore, climate change science and the mainstream media. On the same day that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report, professor of atmospheric science William Gray, a hurricane forecaster at Colorado State University, dismissed the scientific consensus that global warming is a real problem, that it is caused by human activity and that it will lead to more intense storms like Hurricane Katrina. His speech made headlines around the world...

It’s not uncommon, at least in some Democratic circles, to ponder the possibilities of a joint presidential ticket of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. And in most conversations, the names are listed in precisely that order. But when that question is raised on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, Senator Obama asks for a bit of clarity. “That would be a powerful ticket,” Mr. Letterman says of the two senators. “Undeniably that would be a powerful ticket.” Mr. Obama replies: “Which order are we talking about?”

[snip] Though the tone of Mantel and Skrovan's film is admiring (Mantel is a longtime friend and former office manager for Nader), the filmmakers capture the strong current of anger against Nader, particularly Democrats who feel that his presidential run in 2000 put George W. Bush in the White House. In fact, the film begins with a chorus of angry voices, from a writer bitterly thanking Nader for the Iraq war to Jimmy Carter's familiar drawl, suggesting that Nader return to "examining the rear ends of automobiles."

April 16, 2007 issue - There's a turncoat inside Hillary Clinton's money machine. Over the past several years, Leonore Blitz has helped raise about $250,000 for Clinton's Senate races, and she signed up early to help the new presidential campaign. But in recent weeks the Manhattan marketing consultant has secretly attended finance meetings and fund-raisers for Clinton's archrival, Barack Obama. Under intense pressure from the Clinton team to pick sides, Blitz—who bundled more than $1 million for John Kerry in 2004—felt deeply conflicted. Clinton operatives have warned donors not to contribute to other campaigns, and put a price on disloyalty:...

Rudy Giuliani's strategy to win the 2008 Republican presidential nomination seems fairly straightforward: 1) use his 9/11 "America's mayor" reputation to win the national-security conservatives; 2) promote his record of reforming New York City--including cutting taxes and balancing the budget--to win fiscal conservatives; 3) make himself acceptable to social conservatives by promising to appoint Supreme Court justices like Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito who just might vote to toss out Roe v. Wade. Of course, it's appealing to that last group that is most problematic for Giuliani given his liberal record on social issues, particularly abortion. (And it's Fred Thompson's...

She tops most Democratic primary polls, she has outraised every other presidential candidate, and she's even the top choice in the online betting markets to be our next commander in chief. So if you're a political junkie, you can't help but wonder, "What would a Hillary Clinton presidency look like?" Indeed, Greg Valliere, top political analyst at the Stanford Group, a Washington, D.C.-based institutional research firm for Wall Street's big-money crowd, has pondered just that question. And here is a bit of what the supersavvy Valliere and his team have come up with–a year and a half before Election Day...

TAKE MY QUIZ: Hold Your Nose or Cut it Off? At least for now, the two-party system is entrenched in American politics. So, come Election Day in 2008, the fact is that there will be two viable candidates for the office of President of the United States. In other words, in 2008, it is a major statistical likelihood that the newly elected president will be a member of the Democrat or Republican party. What's at stake in a presidential election? How many people are you actually voting "for" (or "against") when you cast your vote on Election Day? Does it...