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• Conservatives Shrug at Obama Birth Control Rewrite
  WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.The candidates themselves, campaigning for...
• Fox Poll: Santorum Surges After Tuesday’s Wins
  Rick Santorum s triple primary season victories on Tuesday gave him a large and immediate bump in public opinion, a new Fox News poll shows. The network carried out its polls over four days two before the results from Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri were in and two...
• First Lady's Trips Boost Health and Her Husband
  In just the past few days, she's danced with cheering school kids, chatted with troops, swapped ideas with busy parents and engaged in a friendly cooking competition with stars from Top Chef. Michelle Obama is on a national tour to promote the second anniversary of her...
• LIGNET: Out of Afghanistan, New Powers Emerge
  In winding down the Afghan war, the United States has inadvertently shifted power to neighboring countries like Uzbekistan, which it is now paying for use of its roads as transit routes to re-supply the 89,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
• Pelosi May Have Broken Ethics Rules
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may have violated congressional ethics rules at a Capitol press conference Thursday, when she made a remark that could be considered a request for campaign contributions, The Hill reports.
• Becket Fund: Obama Offers False Compromise
  The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in a press release following President Barack Obama s backpedaling on his stance on the abortion-drug mandate, said that the Commander in Chief has only offered a false compromise, and that many religious organizations are still...
• Pro-Life Group: Obama Mandate Trumps Roe V. Wade
  The Obama administration is sticking with its abortion-inducing drugs mandate in its preventative health care guidelines, according to a press release from Americans United for Life (AUL), the first national pro-life organization in the United States. The pro-life...
• Thomas Rips Quip at Maddow
  Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Cal Thomas lambasted MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, suggsting that the world would be a better place if she hand't been born, Politico reports.
• Poll: Kennedy Ahead in Race for Frank's Seat
  There s no sign of Kennedy fatigue in Massachusetts, at least not yet in the congressional race where Democrat Joseph P. Kennedy III is expected to face off against Republican Sean Bielat in the November general election. According to a Boston Herald poll conducted with...
• Pa. Can Use Old District Maps for State Primary
  Pennsylvania can still use its decade-old legislative district maps for its upcoming primary elections, after a federal judge Wednesday rejected state Republican leaders demands to declare them unconstitutional. U.S. Eastern District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick said a...
• Obama Raising Money from Gay, Lesbian Donors
  President Barack Obama is telling gay and lesbian supporters that there's more work to do to ensure fairness for all. But he says he couldn't be prouder of accomplishments like overturning the ban on gays serving openly in the military and he says the...
• Washington State Governor to Sign Gay Marriage Bill Monday
  Governor Christine Gregoire plans on Monday to sign newly passed legislation legalizing gay marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh U.S. state to recognize same-sex nuptials, her office said on Thursday. A statehouse signing ceremony in Olympia, Washington's...
• Obama Foreclosure Deal to Spur Home Seizures
  The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may trigger a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely. Lenders slowed the pace of foreclosures as they negotiated with...
• FBI File: Steve Jobs Was Considered for US Post
  FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple founder Steve Jobs reveal a man so driven by power that he sometimes lost sight of honesty.The newly released FBI interviews conducted in 1991 were part of a background check for an appointment to the President's...
• GOP: No Tax Break for Illegal Immigrants
  Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to illegal immigrants, refund checks averaging $1,800 a family, in an effort that has roused anger among Hispanics and some Democratic lawmakers.The proposal, which would require people who claim the federal credit to have...
• Postal Service Has $3.3B Loss for Quarter
  The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that its quarterly loss widened to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits as it struggles to stave off bankruptcy.From October through December 2011, losses were $3 billion more...
• Poll: Virginians Favor Drug Testing to Get Welfare
  Most Virginians are in favor of requiring welfare recipients to pass a drug test, according to a new poll released Thursday morning by Quinnipiac University. The poll found that Virginia voters by a margin of 76-21 support drug testing as a requirement in order to qualify...
• Iranian Company Mocks US, Sends Obama Toy Drone
  An Iranian company is mocking the United States and President Barack Obama by sending a U.S. drone captured in December home — with a small makeover.
• States, Feds to Announce Mortgage Settlement
  Federal officials say a deal has been reached between states and the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses.The Justice Department says the settlement will be announced at a 10 a.m. EST news conference Thursday.The nationwide settlement stems from abuses...
• Intern Alford: 'No One Said Anything' About Her Swim With JFK
  Summer intern Mimi Alford did more for President John F. Kennedy during her time at the White House than get his coffee, she alleges in her soon-to-be-releasd book Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath. I think when you keep a...
• Wash. Moves Step Closer to Legalizing Gay Marriage
  
• Air Force Trains Flight Attendants for VIP Trips
  Bret Baker welcomes customers aboard a Boeing 757 wearing a three-piece suit and a sparkling smile. His manner is all Friendly Skies but his pocket patch bears the seal of the Vice President of the United States, signaling that this is government business.And though his...
• Group Wants Supreme Court to Save War Memorial
  Military veterans and others are planning to rally at a war memorial cross on public land in San Diego deemed unconstitutional by a federal court to push the Supreme Court to take up the case.A nonprofit legal firm is organizing Thursday's demonstration atop Mt. Soledad in...
• Rep. Noem: Keystone Pipeline Is 'Right for America'
  Rep. Kristi Noem says she believes Canada will sign an agreement to sell China oil if the United States does not reverse the Obama administration s position to block construction of the Keystone pipeline. The South Dakota Republican also told Fox News Wednesday that a bill...
• Washington State Passes Gay Marriage Bill
  A bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state won final legislative approval on Wednesday in a vote that moved the state one step closer to becoming the seventh to recognize same-sex nuptials. Governor Christine Gregoire, a Democrat in her last term of office, was...

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