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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 Mar 2010 4:45pm GMT

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

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

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

AP - 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

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