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AP-GfK Poll: Public wants elusive accord on health (AP)

Graphic shows poll results on public opinion about health careAP - Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere in sight.




Obama: Greece, facing bad days, has US as ally (AP)

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou before their meeting, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.




Obama pushes senators for climate bill (AP)

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks to reporters following the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.




Carnahan to miss Obama visit (Politico)
Politico - Robin Carnahan will not greet President Obama at the pitch for his health care overhaul in Missouri.

Senators spar over consumer body (Politico)
Politico - Shelby proposes yet another protections structure.

Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer (AP)

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer.  He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual.




Obama using 'bounty hunters' for health care fraud (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform, Monday, March 8, 2010, at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.




FACT CHECK: Lawmaker quits amid changing stories (AP)

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer.  He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - New York congressman Eric Massa resigned his House seat this week under a sexual harassment cloud, claiming fellow Democrats forced his ouster to keep him from voting against their health care bill.




Baby slings to get federal warning after suffocations (AP)

A baby sling is displayed in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The U.S. government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings — those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents can sling around their chests to carry their baby. The concern is that infants can suffocate, and a few have. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The U.S. government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings — those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents can sling around their chests to carry their baby.




Chief Justice Roberts calls State of Union scene 'troubling' (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts sits for a new group photograph with other Supreme Court judges at the Supreme Court in Washington. For a short time Thursday, March 4, 2010, Washington buzzed over a rumor reported exclusively by an online gossip Web site with no particular Supreme Court expertise that Chief Justice John Roberts was considering stepping down. He is not resigning, as even the Radar Online site quickly concluded in backing away from its own story. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and the annual speech has "degenerated to a political pep rally."




Odierno says US troop withdrawal plan on schedule (AP)

A US soldier patrols the area near the Independent High Electoral Commission headquarters in Baghdad. President Barack Obama, who has promised to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of next year, paid tribute to AP - The top U.S. general in Iraq says the Iraqi military performed superbly on Sunday's mostly peaceful election day and that President Barack Obama's plan to remove American combat troops from that country by Sept. 1 is proceeding on schedule.




Missing body of Cyprus' ex-leader found, 3 arrests (AP)

FILE- In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo women stand in front of the grave of former President Tassos Papadopoulos before his one-year memorial service just a day after his body was stolen by grave robbers at Deftera suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus police say a body found at a Nicosia cemetery could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said a tip-off led police to the corpse late Monday March 8, 2010. But he wouldn't elaborate in what state the corpse was or what evidence investigators have to lead them to believe it could be that of the former Greek Cypriot leader. Papadopoulos' corpse was stolen from a graveyard in suburban Nicosia on Dec. 11, 2009 - the eve of the first anniversary of his death from lung cancer. The motive remains a mystery. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)AP - Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus' former president was found reburied in another grave and three men were arrested Tuesday in what officials called a case of bodysnatching for ransom.




Dutch bishops announce sex abuse investigation (AP)
AP - Dutch Catholic bishops announced an independent inquiry Tuesday into allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests at church schools, and apologized to victims.

Obama backs bipartisan crackdown on healthcare cheats (Reuters)

Health care workers, who work for the Alameda County jail facility, picket during a one-day strike outside of the a county jail in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. About 140 union health care workers, who are mostly nurses, are asking for better health care benefits. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)Reuters - President Barack Obama, making a final push for healthcare reform, will back bipartisan plans to stamp out waste in government-run medical programs for the old and needy, the White House said on Tuesday.




Congress seeks data on Lejeune water contamination (McClatchy Newspapers)

In a Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2009 photo, retired Marine Master Sgt.Jerry Ensminger with some of his documentation related to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, at his home in Elizabethtown, NC. Ensminger lost his 9-year-old daughter Janey, seen in photo at left, to leukemia and believes the government knowingly exposed military families to carcinogenic contaminates. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor that was involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decades.




Massa Says He Tickled Staffer 'Until He Couldn't Breathe' (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from the House Monday night as he battled allegations that he sexually harassed his aides, acknowledged on a Fox News program Tuesday that he touched a male staffer.

Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings (Bloomberg)

The Toyota logo are reflected on a Prius on display at the Chicago Auto Show on February 10. US lawmakers preparing to grill Toyota executives on their handling of a series of mass safety recalls accused the Japanese automaker Monday of Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.




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