Here are some of the hottest and most current stories on :

Pennsylvania Results Mean Clinton Could Win the Popular Vote and …
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
Polls taken just before the race showed Hillary Clinton ahead of Barack Obama by 49.5 percent to 43.4 percent. The actual vote was 55 percent to 45 percent with Clinton winning (official county results here). Some interesting patterns here. As I noted in a previous blog post, Obama carries blacks, academics, and state capitals—and not much else.

NPR News Special: Clinton Wins Crucial Pa. Primary
NPR – USA
Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania, the largest state left on the calendar, by a double digit margin on Tuesday. Though the victory gives the Clinton campaign at least two more weeks’ lease on legitimacy, Clinton still trails Barack Obama in pledged delegates.

Clinton victory extends Democrats’ civil war
Independent – London,England,UK
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster By Leonard Doyle in Philadelphia Hillary Clinton pulled off a thumping 10 percentage point victory over her rival Barack Obama in Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. The dramatic sweep of her victory last night threw a financial lifeline to her near bankrupt campaign and boosted her case for remaining in the race.

Editorial: Clinton presses on regardless
New Zealand Herald – New Zealand
Time and again in this fascinating American election, pundits have read the last rites on the quest of Hillary Clinton to become the first female President. They said she had to win yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary by a margin of double figures over Barack Obama to keep her campaign alive. Still she presses on. To what? She cannot overtake Mr Obama on elected delegates to the Democratic Party’s convention, she can only hope to damage him enough that party elders, "superdelegates" to the convention, over-rule his popular vote, an unwise and increasingly unlikely prospect.

British minister says Clinton’s ‘obliterate’ Iran tone imprudent
AFP –
LONDON (AFP) — A British foreign minister said Wednesday that US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons was imprudent. Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, a former United Nations deputy secretary-general and the foreign office minister responsible for Asia, questioned the comments by the New York senator, made in an interview broadcast Tuesday.

Women, Seniors and Blue-Collar Voters Boost Clinton
NPR – USA
Hillary Clinton got out the voters she needed in Pennsylvania. White women, senior citizens, union members and people earning under $50000 a year came out came out in strong numbers to help her secure an important win, according to exit polls. As in past contests, voters’ support was split along the familiar fault lines of gender, race, age and class. But this time there was a key difference: The New York senator won the support of white men, who have been swing voters in previous primaries and caucuses. Overall, 60 percent of white men and women voted for her.