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Compiled by Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau

USA Today: Democrats' nomination duel is down to wire
Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrated a big primary victory Sunday in Puerto Rico, but the campaign of her rival Barack Obama says he will make history and clinch the Democratic presidential nomination this week.

CNN: Clinton claims victory in Puerto Rico
Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Puerto Rico on Sunday and insisted that she is leading Sen. Barack Obama in the popular vote.

USA Today: McCain to urge nations to cut funds to Iran
Presidential hopeful John McCain Monday will call on corporations and government institutions worldwide to pull their money out of Iran as a way to pressure the regime into giving up its nuclear ambitions.

Washington Post: McClellan Recounts Administration's Missed Chances After '04 Election
Believe it or not, even after a week of wall-to-wall media coverage, there's still grist to mull over from the new Scott McClellan memoir, "What Happened."

New York Sun: Scalia Decries Drift of Court on Religion
Justice Scalia, speaking at a time when gay marriage, public education, and the war on terror are creating cases that test the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, chose the banquet of a large group of Orthodox Jews here to declare that the Constitution should not be read to "banish the Almighty from the public forum."

NY Times: Industries Allied to Cap Carbon Differ on the Details
Some of the most powerful corporate leaders in America have been meeting regularly with leading environmental groups in a conference room in downtown Washington for over two years to work on proposals for a national policy to limit carbon emissions. The discussions have often been tense. Pinned on a wall, a large handmade poster with Rolling Stones lyrics reminds everyone, “You can’t always get what you want.”

The Washington Times: General: McCain weak on security
The most senior retired military officer to back the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, says the first-term U.S. senator will not give Sen. John McCain, a decorated war hero, a pass on the issue of national security in the fall campaign.

CNN: Clinton makes popular vote pitch in new ad
In the latest sign Hillary Clinton isn't yet preparing to bow out of the presidential race, the New York senator is launching a new television ad Monday that highlights her claim she is beating Barack Obama in the popular vote.CNN: Clinton makes popular vote pitch in new ad.

Rapid City Journal: New state system prepares voters for Election Day
Voters who are not sure where they vote or what races they'll decide in the June 3 primary can go to the South Dakota Secretary of State's Web site, punch in their name and birth date and get a copy of the ballot they'll fill out as well as information on where to go to do it.

NY Times: In Louisiana, Inklings of a New (True) Champion of the Right
Religion and fiscal stringency have a friendly home at the state Capitol here, with a conservative, Bobby Jindal, in the governor’s office, a host of straight-arrow novice legislators eager to please him and an honored spot for the Louisiana Family Forum in the old marble halls.

WSJ: For Now, McCain Has The TV-Ad Scene to Himself
John McCain's new TV-ad campaign says a lot about how he sees the general-election battle ahead. The message is economics and the state that has seen the most spending on ads so far is Ohio.

Politico: The invisible impeachment
As the Democratic primary season nears a close, the candidates have talked about dozens of policies, fended off a host of attacks and studiously avoided one topic: the impeachment of President Clinton.

Washington Post: Priest Again Apologizes For Remarks In Sermon; Statement Follows Decision By Obama to Leave Church
The Rev. Michael L. Pfleger again apologized yesterday for controversial statements he had made in a guest sermon at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, a day after Sen. Barack Obama announced he is leaving the congregation that he has been an active member of since 1992.

NY Times: A Battered Feeling at Obama’s Former Church
For weeks, the members of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of the city felt battered by the national spotlight that had accompanied the growing fame of their longtime member, Senator Barack Obama.

WSJ: Paulson's Mideast Message Is U.S. Is 'Open for Business'
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. remains "open for business" to Mideast investors and that talks aimed at setting up best-practices rules for government-run investment funds shouldn't be viewed as discriminatory.

Washington Post: Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High; Critics Say Increased Use of Criminal Charges Strains System
Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new U.S. data.

NY Times: An Open Seat in California? That’s Just the Start
While most Congressional races are known for incumbency comfort, a nasty battle over the seat held since 1993 by John T. Doolittle — a Republican who decided not to seek re-election after coming under fire over his ties to a convicted lobbyist — has shaken up this reliably conservative spot on the California map.

Boston Globe: A strategist aids Kennedy once more
In the days after being diagnosed with potentially inoperable brain cancer, Senator Edward M. Kennedy began crafting a strategy for his health, one not altogether different than those he's devised to pass healthcare legislation, run for president, or win regattas on Nantucket Sound.

NY Times: In Harlem, the Governor’s Support of Same-Sex Marriage Gets a Mixed Reaction
The news not only caught Edwin Perez off guard, it turned his stomach. Mr. Perez, 28, had long been a supporter of Gov. David A. Paterson, who forged his political career in Harlem, which he represented in the State Senate for 23 years. But Mr. Paterson’s recent move to order state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere eroded Mr. Perez’s respect for a man he had once greatly admired.

LA Times: Gay marriage may be a gift to California's economy
Business is up for hotels, bakers and photographers as same-sex couples
prepare to wed.

Washington Post: U.N. Chief to Prod Nations On Food Crisis
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will issue an urgent plea to world leaders at a food summit in Rome on Tuesday to immediately suspend trade restrictions, agricultural taxes and other price controls that have helped fuel the highest food prices in 30 years, according to U.N. officials.