International:
2 Koreas sign summit declaration
The leaders of North and South Korea pledged Thursday to seek a peace treaty to replace the Korean War's 1953 cease-fire and expand projects to reduce tension across the world's last Cold War frontier. Read details here...

U.N. Doubts Progress on Myanmar
Military rulers amp up propaganda to cover brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks and pro-democracy dissidents

National:
No Child Left Behind
Both the Senate and the House have passed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) with strong bipartisan majorities, but the Bush administration has vetoed it. Asked yesterday if there would be a ceremony today when the President signs the veto, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said, "I would not anticipate that there would be any ceremony."

Wiretaps
Jack Goldsmith, a former Bush administration attorney, told Congress yesterday that President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program was "the biggest legal mess [he] had ever encountered" and after leading an internal review, he "could not find a legal basis for some aspects of the program." Contradicting testimony by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who said there were no "serious disagreements about the program" within the administration, Goldsmith stated, "There were enormous disagreements," with the internal fight culminating "in a threat by Goldsmith, [former Deputy Attorney General James] Comey, and others to resign en masse if the program were allowed to continue without changes."

In Other News…
The Bush administration has made "seemingly inconsistent decisions" when releasing prisoners they deem "among America's most-hardened criminals" from Guantanamo Bay, according to Pentagon documents. Human rights groups contend that the documents show that the military panels are often "overridden by political expediency."

The State Department launched its own blog last week, called "Dipnote."

The Polish ambassador to Iraq was wounded and a civilian was killed in a car bomb that went off in downtown Baghdad today. Approximately 900 Polish troops are currently stationed south of Baghdad training Iraqi personnel.

White House Retaliates Against UK For Withdrawal: ‘British Forces Have Performed Poorly’ In Iraq

From The Right: Mike Gallagher: An Open Letter to Keith Olbermann
What is it going to take? What do I have to do to get your attention in order to be named one of your "Worst Persons In The World" on your nightly MSNBC show?

From the Left: Steven Thomma and Tony Pugh,: Bush Veto Strategy Threatens Republicans President Bush is putting his fellow Republicans on a collision course with the American people, forcing them to choose between guns and butter.

Quote(s) Of The Day: You see, what that meant is if you got a wire tap by court order -- and, by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example. President Bush -- April 19, 2004

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution. President Bush -- April 20, 2004

(Sources: TownHall, TruthOut, AP, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, NewsMax, DrudgeReport, NYT, WhiteHouse website, WashingtonTimes, WashingtonPost, CBSNews, USDeptOfState, PoliticalCartoons.com)