Need for results drives Obama's domestic juggle (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:28 GMT]
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AP Source: Obama wants Yellen as Fed vice chair (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, a person familiar with the selection said Friday.
[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:19:25 GMT]
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Reid's wife hospitalized after traffic accident (AP)

This undated image from Senator Harry Reid's Senate website shows Reid, second from left standing, with his family including daughter Lana, left sitting, and wife Landra. Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday March 11, 2010 after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said. Reid's wife, Landra, 69, whose injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, and their daughter, Lana Barringer, 49, were taken by ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. The daughter was released from the hospital Thursday night, hospital spokesman Tony Raker said. (AP Photo/US Senate)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:25 GMT]
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Senators question $1 million pay for charity's CEO (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2010, file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., arrives to vote on the Senate Jobs Bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. 'The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help kids,' said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:05:40 GMT]
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Freshmen: Massa right about money (Politico)
Politico - At least one part of former Rep. Eric Massa?s hourlong, train-wreck interview with cable-television host Glenn Beck rang true to his fellow House freshmen Tuesday: the grim description of the intense and time-consuming fundraising pressures that dominate the lives of junior members.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:00 GMT]
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Democrats pare differences over health overhaul (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, along with Gina Owens from Seattle, Wash.,left, whose daughter, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill. center, and others, arrive for a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Top Democrats say they are resolving disputes over President Barack Obama's health overhaul plan, but they face decisions on subsidizing coverage and are still hunting votes to push the vast package through Congress.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:05 GMT]
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Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008, file photo, a worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif. In May 2008, the Agriculture Department banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand, since so-called 'downer' cows pose an increased risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and other infections. That change came in the wake of the nation's largest beef recall, after the Humane Society of the United States released another video in early 2008 showing the abuse of downers at Hallmark Meat Co. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:43:39 GMT]
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Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman (AP)
AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:03 GMT]
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'Little Billy' punks VIPs in wide-eyed letters (AP)

A letter from Sarah Palin's father Chuck Heath, and an autographed Palin photo, to author Bill Geerhart, part of his new book, 'Little Billy's Letters,' on his 1950s retro Formica kitchen table, at his home in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 10, 2010. But Geerhart was better known to some of the famous and infamous as Little Billy, punking them by posing as a school boy writing letters to them asking questions out of the mouths of babes. Their correspondence back - humorous, head-scratching, poignant - are compiled in 'Little Billy's Letters,' out this week. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - "Little Billy" was in a jam: His parents blamed him for dismembering his sister's doll, but the dog did it. How could he clear his name?



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:57:23 GMT]
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Pa. GOP picks Burns as nominee for Murtha's seat (AP)

A file photo of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as he arrives at a memorial service for U.S. Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed/FilesAP - Republicans in Pennsylvania have nominated a political newcomer to fill the congressional seat of the late Rep. John Murtha.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:47:25 GMT]
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Iraq PM in tight race as opposition alleges fraud (AFP)

Iraqi electoral officials count votes at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) headquarters in Baghdad. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was locked in a tight contest to hold on to his job, as election results from Iraq's polls trickled in and opposition blocs alleged blatant fraud.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was locked in a tight contest to hold on to his job on Friday, as election results from Iraq's polls trickled in and opposition blocs alleged blatant fraud.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:19:48 GMT]
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Iraq's election race tight as results delayed again (Reuters)

Officials count parliamentary election ballots at the tally centre in Baghdad March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a modest lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results from Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead among Iraqi Sunnis.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:12:48 GMT]
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Obama to meet with top war, science advisers (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama has a busy day of meetings planned, but no public appearances are on the agenda.
[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:05:24 GMT]
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Iraq opposition alleges 'flagrant' election fraud (AFP)

Iraqi electoral officials count votes at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) headquarters in Baghdad. A senior member of Iraq's main secular opposition bloc on Friday protested of blatant fraud in favour of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during Iraq's general election last weekend.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A senior member of Iraq's main secular opposition bloc on Friday protested of blatant fraud in favour of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during Iraq's general election last weekend.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:06:45 GMT]
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Obama to tap Yellen for Fed vice chair: source (Reuters)

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen arrives at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 21, 2009. REUTERS/Price ChambersReuters - President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:41:51 GMT]
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Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul (AP)

Bishop John Wester, from Salt Lake City, talks to the media outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010, following after a meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:25:28 GMT]
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GOP Picks Burns As Nominee in Murtha Special (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Local Republicans in Pennsylvania's 12th district on Thursday evening picked businessman Tim Burns to be their nominee in the special election to replace the late Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.).
[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:06:11 GMT]
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Obama pushes trade initiative as jobs helper (AP)

President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:52:05 GMT]
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Ginsburg endorses end to local judicial elections (AP)
AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is endorsing an end to the election of judges at the state and local levels.
[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:16 GMT]
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US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens' rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.



[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:06:40 GMT]
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