12 Mar 2010

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Democrats pare differences over health overhaul (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama delayed next week's Asian trip on Friday to seize on suddenly improved prospects for his sweeping health care legislation, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of the overhaul in days.


12 Mar 2010 8:52pm GMT

Government sends e-mails; it just can't save them (AP)

FILE - In this 1973 file photo, Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary at her White House desk, demonstrates the 'Rose Mary Stretch' which could have resulted in the erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved. (AP Photo/File)AP - As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.


12 Mar 2010 8:43pm GMT

Sen. Reid's wife has surgery after serious crash (AP)

FILE - In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A spokesman says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday, March 11, 2010, from serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday after breaking her neck and back in a traffic accident that also injured the senator's daughter, a spokesman said.


12 Mar 2010 8:42pm GMT

Health care imbroglio delays Obama Pacific trip (AFP)

The fierce and escalating battle over health care reform Friday forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days until Sunday, March 21.(AFP/FIle/Saul Loeb)AFP - The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform Friday forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days until Sunday, March 21.


12 Mar 2010 8:40pm GMT

AG Holder didn't reveal all legal papers to Senate (AP)

AP - Justice Department officials say that when senators were considering Eric Holder's nomination to be attorney general last year, he didn't given them all the legal briefs he had signed from his time in private practice.

12 Mar 2010 8:16pm GMT

A look at Democrats' health care overhaul (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as next week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the Congressional Budget Office that will allow them to finish details. Here are some of the main features as the bill takes shape:

12 Mar 2010 7:20pm GMT

Pelosi Sets Up Health Care Vote Next Week (CQPolitics.com)

CQPolitics.com - Speaker Nancy Pelosi has outlined provisions of a health care "corrections" bill that she hopes the House will pass next week, setting the stage for final congressional action on Democrats' health care overhaul.

12 Mar 2010 7:01pm GMT

Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Asia, his first international trip of the year, to focus on the push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.


12 Mar 2010 6:57pm GMT

States scramble after high court election ruling (AP)

** FILE ** In this Feb. 6, 2007 file photo, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner talks in her office in Columbus, Ohio. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down old limits on campaign spending in January, it left states facing an election year burden: brace for a flood of new money in elections, or find new ways to rein it in. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file)AP - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in.


12 Mar 2010 6:44pm GMT

Pelosi: House vote may be next week (Politico)

Politico - The speaker vows to stay in session until the chamber comes to a vote on health care reform.

12 Mar 2010 5:38pm GMT

It's time to spring forward again (AP)

AP - Good evening sunshine, America says hello, you light up our evenings, we light charcoal below.

12 Mar 2010 4:45pm GMT

Rove 'proud' of waterboarding (Politico)

Politico - "Yes, I'm proud that we kept the world safer than it was," former Bush adviser tells BBC.

12 Mar 2010 3:51pm GMT

Russia criticizes US, NATO over Afghan drugs (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Russian Ambassador to NATO Dimitri Rogozin speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Rogozin is criticizing the alliance's military strategy in Afghanistan, Friday March 12, 2010, where the emphasis has shifted away from fighting drug trafficking, saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia's national security. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)AP - Russia's envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance's battle with drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying it has led to a surge in heroin smuggling that is endangering Russia's national security.


12 Mar 2010 2:26pm GMT

UN envoy: No indication of widespread fraud in Iraq election (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations is not seeing widespread fraud that could affect the outcome of the Iraq election, but it is still waiting for details of hundreds of complaints launched by political parties, according to senior UN officials.

12 Mar 2010 2:15pm GMT

11 Mar 2010

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Where Obama's Nobel money is going (AP)

Nobel Peace Prize laureate U.S. President Barack Obama poses with his medal and certificate as Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland stands with him in Oslo Hall December 10, 2009. REUTERS/Bjorn Sigurdson/Scanpix NorwayAP - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "do extraordinary work."


11 Mar 2010 11:59pm GMT

Financial regulation bill to be introduced without GOP backing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd listens to testimony at the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON - Long-awaited Senate legislation that would direct the broadest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression will be introduced on Monday without any Republican support, despite weeks of bipartisan negotiations.


11 Mar 2010 11:08pm GMT