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• GOP Leaders Faulted for Skipping 50th Anniversary of Selma March
  President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will take part in this weekend's event, honoring the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery by black Americans fighting for the right to vote, but House and Senate Republican leaders won't be joining them.
• Govt: US Adds 295,000 New Jobs as Unemployment Falls to 5.5%
  U.S. employment accelerated in February and the jobless rate fell to 5.5 percent, signs that could encourage the Federal Reserve to consider hiking interest rates in June.
• Obama: Racial Bias in Ferguson Police Dept. Not Isolated
  President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement.Obama said improving civil rights and civil liberties...
• Slashing of US Envoy in SKorea Raises Security Questions
  Police on Friday investigated the motive of the anti-U.S. activist they say slashed the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, as questions turned to whether security was neglected.The attack Thursday on Mark Lippert, which prompted rival North Korea to gloat about knife slashes...
• Suspected Pentagon Hacker Arrested in UK
  British authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man over a hacking attack on the US Department of Defense, one of 56 people detained in a week-long crackdown on cyber-crime, officials said Friday.The man, from near Birmingham in central England, is suspected of involvement...
• NYT: Ferguson Leaders Set to Fix Race Problems Often Cause of Them
  The city officials entrusted with fixing the problems in the Ferguson justice system are part of the problem, The New York Times reported.
• Republicans Set to Replace Obamacare if Court Crushes Subsidies
  While the Supreme Court considers the case against Obamacare subsidies, Republican lawmakers in both houses of Congress are taking up the challenge of drafting a replacement for the historic healthcare law in the event the plaintiffs prevail.
• German Parliament Approves Quotas for Women on Company Boards
  Germany's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Friday requiring major companies to allot 30 percent of seats on non-executive boards to women, as a new survey found females remain grossly under-represented in business life. Although Germany has been led by a...
• ISIS 'Bulldozed' Ancient Assyrian City of Nimrud, Iraq Says
  The Islamic State group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq on Thursday, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.ISIS assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles, the...
• In Iowa, Jeb Bush May Have to Explain His Loss in Schiavo Case
  Standing at the pulpit of his Sioux City, Iowa, mega-church a decade ago, Reverend Cary Gordon wept over the death of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who had her feeding tubes removed more than 1,500 miles away in Florida. Now, the politician mostly closely associated...
• Fox News Poll: Majority of Americans Say Obama Is Not Honest
  A new poll finds more than half of Americans feel President Barack Obama is not honest, while almost half think he is not patriotic.
• GOP Strategists: Dems Can't Blame Hillary Email Scandal on Us
  Democrats worked vigorously Thursday to contain the exploding controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account while she was secretary of state, but "they can't argue that this is some right-wing conspiracy and that the Republicans are trying to shoot her...
• Dennis Ross: Netanyahu Made a Strong Case, Deserves Answers from Obama
  One of the sharpest critics of Prime Benjamin Netanyahu over the years has been veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross.
• Report: ISIS Supporters Used 46,000 to 70,000 Twitter Accounts
  Supporters of the Islamic State group (ISIS) used at least 46,000 , and possibly as many as 70,000 , Twitter accounts in the last four months of 2014, a surprising new report finds.
• Boehner, Bipartisan Group Pressure Obama on Ukraine
  House Speaker John Boehner and a group of top Democrats and Republicans stepped up the pressure on President Barack Obama to provide lethal, defensive weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
• Lt. Gen. Flynn: Obama Claim al-Qaida on Run Off Base
  The claims made by President Barack Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign that al-Qaida was on the run did not match the information Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was seeing as Defense Intelligence Agency director, he told Fox News,
• Gen. Vallely: Petraeus 'Hung Out to Dry' in Selective Prosecution
  While some observers detect a sweetheart plea deal for former CIA chief David Petraeus, retired Army Gen. Paul Vallely sees a different double standard at work: the fellow general "hung out to dry" by a Justice Department that routinely ignores administration wrongdoing.
• Israel Amb. Dermer: No Regrets on Netanyahu Speech, Won't Step Down
  Israel's Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said he has no plans to resign amid criticism that his role in organizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress this week has soured U.S-Israeli relations.
• Sen. John Barrasso: No Idea What High Court Will Do on Obamacare
  Sen. John Barrasso, a chief architect in the Republican bid to squash the Affordable Care Act, tells Newsmax TV that despite this week's spirited debate before the Supreme Court, he has no clue which way the nation's top jurists are leaning.
• Obama Administration Asks Judge to Speed up Immigration Decision
  The Obama administration asked a federal judge in Texas to decide by Monday whether he will put on hold his prior decision to block the White House's executive orders on immigration, or at least limit the impact to Texas.
• Report: Harry Reid Secured 'Green Energy' Subsidies for Ex-Staffers
  Corporate donors to a green-energy nonprofit operated by a current campaign operative and former staffers for Sen. Harry Reid have received billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees and grant money as a result of his advocacy, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
• Rick Perry's Supporters Launch Super PAC
  As former Texas Gov. Rick Perry readies a second presidential campaign, his supporters have created a super PAC devoted to his 2016 ambitions.
• Senate Democrats to McConnell: Time to Vote on AG Nominee Lynch
  Senate Democrats are putting pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring a vote to the Senate floor to confirm Attorney General-nominee Loretta Lynch.
• WaPo: Will Regulation Impede Internet as It Did the Railroads?
  Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson warns that Internet users would be well advised to closely scrutinize net neutrality regulations.
• McConnell Postpones Iran Debate in Senate After Dems Object
  Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday postponed plans to debate and vote next week on a bill that would require President Barack Obama to submit any nuclear agreement with Iran for Congress' approval.

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