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Obama, Medvedev encouraged on arms talks accord (AP)

President Barack Obama walks out of the Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, Md., Saturday, March 13, 2010, after ha Obama and the first lady attended their daughter Sasha's basketball game. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday had what the White House described as an "encouraging" phone conversation with Russian President Dmitrty Medvedev as the two countries sought to work out the remaining issues on a treaty to significantly reduce nuclear arsenals.


Catholic hospitals support health care bill (AP)

Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., right, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., gestures during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010.   (AP  Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.


Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects (AP)

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, looks on as Gina Owens hugs her grandson, Marcelas Owens from Seattle, Wash., whose mother, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care, Thursday, March 11, 2010, during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.


Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids (AP)

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.


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.
US mom: Daughter held in Ireland 'lost her mind' (AP)

Christine Mott, 58, cries as she talks about her daughter Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, at her home in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Paulin-Ramirez was the second American arrested in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over a 2007 sketch depicting the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body.   (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)AP - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps.


Pelosi confident House will pass health care bill (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference Saturday March 13, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure.


Divided party? It's not just GOP, but also Dems (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama's top adviser David Axelrod speaks to the media in Chicago. For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.


Young appeals court nominee raises liberal hopes (AP)

This undated handout photo provided by the University of California Berkeley School of Law shows Goodwin Liu. Thirteen months into his presidency, President Barack Obama finally gave his liberal supporters the kind of judicial nomination they have been seeking and conservatives have been fearing. (AP Photo/U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Jim Block)  ** NO SALES **AP - Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.


New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health push (AP)

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., questions witnesses during a hearing on intelligence reform and the lessons of the Christmas Day attack - watch listing and pre-screening, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington.   (AP  Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.


Fiorina assails Washington, Boxer as out of touch (AP)

California Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Carly Fiorina, speaks during the state Republican convention in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, March 13, 2010. Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, is running to challenge incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Her two opponents in the Republican primary are former congressman Tom Campbell and state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.  (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)AP - Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday attempted to win over California Republicans by attacking two of their strongest dislikes — incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and a federal government she says is broken.


Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP)

This undated image provided by the State of Utah shows Majority Leader Republican Kevin Garn. A late-night confession Thursday March 11, 2010 by Utah's House majority leader, Garn, about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this highly conservative state's political establishment. (AP Photo/State of Utah)AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.


Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care (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 has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington.


US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.


Judge faces election after unpopular decision (AP)

This undated image provided by the San Bernardino County Bar Association shows Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau. Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau made what turned out to be a fateful_and unpopular_ decision. Calling her a liar, the judge denied a woman's restraining order against a boyfriend who did exactly what he threatened. He killed their baby, along with himself, 10 day later. (AP Photo/San Bernardino County Bar Association)AP - The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. It was a seemingly routine ruling in a busy family law court called on too often to referee passionate fights between broken young families over the care of babies.


Obama to submit new education initiative (AFP)

Students from Pines Middle School in Pembroke Pines, Florida, gather to listen to US President Barack Obama as he addresses school children across the nation in September 2009. Obama announced Saturday he will be sending to Congress a new education initiative designed to better prepare high school graduates for college and a professional career.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - US President Barack Obama announced Saturday he will be sending to Congress a new education initiative designed to better prepare high school graduates for college and a professional career.


Iraq PM Maliki leads Baghdad, a big election prize (Reuters)

Journalists monitor a screen showing the initial results of national election in Baghdad March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held a wide lead on Saturday in early results from Baghdad, the major prize in a tight election race that Iraqis hope will bring stability after years of sectarian conflict.


Obama's plan for education reform: short on specifics, so far (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama will send the outlines of an education overhaul bill to Congress on Monday, promising sweeping changes to a faltering American education system.
AP Source: Colo. woman held in terror probe (AP)
AP - A U.S. official says a Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims.
Democrats seek agreement, vote on health care (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2010.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.



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