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• Obama to visit Miami school on hard road to reform (AP)
• White House agrees to $6.5B more in budget cuts (AP)
• Judge denies feds' request on Tucson autopsies (AP)
• Republicans meet with Biden amid budget pressure (Reuters)
• Mike Huckabee Gaffe Points to that Obama Kenya Muslim Stuff -- Again (ContributorNetwork)
• Different Opinions Follow Bernanke Congressional Testimony (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama, Calderon pledge cooperation on drug wars (AP)
• Indiana elections chief arrested for vote fraud (Reuters)
• Group: Jindal biz backers giving to wife's charity (AP)
• Wis. Dems threatened with police action, layoffs (AP)
• White House, lawmakers hold first spending summit (AFP)
• Giffords shows more progress in recovery (AP)
• Ind. elections chief charged with voter fraud (AP)
• Haitian presidential candidate stops in Florida (AP)
• Obama checks up on astronauts, new R2 robonaut (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Harvard to let ROTC back on campus (AP)
• GOP to relaunch flood insurance overhaul (Reuters)
• Rajaratnam trial jury jeopardized by SEC: defense (Reuters)
• Gingrich exploring 2012 presidential bid (Reuters)
• Iowa GOP chief: 'Risky' for Palin to ignore Iowa (AP)

Obama to visit Miami school on hard road to reform (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:57 PM PST AP - At the Miami high school that President Barack Obama will visit on Friday, neon-colored flyers taped to the walls quiz students on tough vocabulary words.

White House agrees to $6.5B more in budget cuts (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:27 PM PST AP - The White House called for $6.5 billion in immediate spending cuts Thursday as negotiations opened with tea party-backed Republicans in Congress seeking reductions nearly 10 times as large in their drive to reduce the size of federal government.

Judge denies feds' request on Tucson autopsies (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:19 PM PST AP - The judge presiding over the case against the suspect in January's Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage has refused to grant a prosecution request to bar the release of autopsy reports for the six people killed in the attack.

Republicans meet with Biden amid budget pressure (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden held budget talks with U.S. congressional leaders on Thursday as Republicans came under pressure to scale back their plan to slash domestic spending by 25 percent.

Mike Huckabee Gaffe Points to that Obama Kenya Muslim Stuff -- Again (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Former Arkansas governor and potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee seems to have gotten himself into a little word bind about President Obama and his raised near madrassas, implying, it would seem, that Obama was influenced at an early age by Muslim teachings or was exposed to those teachings by proximity. He seems to have gotten himself into the entanglement by attempting to explain himself out of another entanglement, one in which he said that Obama has a different worldview due to his being raised in Kenya.

Different Opinions Follow Bernanke Congressional Testimony (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Sen. Ron Paul asked the single most striking question of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the bi-annual Congressional hearings on unemployment and inflation control:

Obama, Calderon pledge cooperation on drug wars (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST AP - Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Thursday to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declared a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking.

Indiana elections chief arrested for vote fraud (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST Reuters - Indiana's top elections official was arrested on Thursday for vote fraud, and the state's governor said he should immediately step down.

Group: Jindal biz backers giving to wife's charity (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - A charitable foundation set up by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's wife has accepted about $790,000 in donations from corporations that also have given to the governor's campaign committee since 2007, a nonpartisan watchdog group said Thursday.

Wis. Dems threatened with police action, layoffs (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - Wisconsin's governor threatened Thursday to issue thousands of layoff notices within 24 hours if Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois fail to return for a vote on a measure that would cripple public unions, and their Republican colleagues also stepped up the pressure by authorizing police to round up the missing lawmakers.

White House, lawmakers hold first spending summit (AFP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PST AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden and top lawmakers on Thursday held their first closed-door talks on government spending cuts, seeking elusive common ground with just two weeks to reach a deal.

Giffords shows more progress in recovery (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PST AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been showing emotion, good memory skills and an impressive grasp of everything from legislative business to song lyrics as she recovers in a Houston hospital from a gunshot wound to the head.

Ind. elections chief charged with voter fraud (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:29 PM PST AP - Indiana's top elections official was indicted Thursday on voter fraud and other charges for allegedly listing his ex-wife's address as his own on voting and loan forms and serving on a town council when he was ineligible, a prosecutor said.

Haitian presidential candidate stops in Florida (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PST AP - A former first lady of Haiti who is running to be its president says it would be better if ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide waited to return to the Caribbean country until after the next round of elections.

Obama checks up on astronauts, new R2 robonaut (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:39 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama called the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and he couldn't resist asking whether they were putting their new robot to work washing the dishes.

APNewsBreak: Harvard to let ROTC back on campus (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST AP - Harvard University is welcoming the Reserve Officer Training Corps program back to campus this week, 41 years after banishing it amid dissent over the Vietnam War.

GOP to relaunch flood insurance overhaul (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:31 PM PST Reuters - Draft legislation to overhaul the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program will be unveiled next week, said the Republican chairman of a congressional insurance oversight panel on Thursday.

Rajaratnam trial jury jeopardized by SEC: defense (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:09 PM PST Reuters - Lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam accused U.S. market regulators of polluting the jury pool for his insider trading trial by filing charges, a week before jury selection, against a friend who is also a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director.

Gingrich exploring 2012 presidential bid (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:57 PM PST Reuters - Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday edged toward becoming the first big-name Republican to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.

Iowa GOP chief: 'Risky' for Palin to ignore Iowa (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:39 PM PST AP - The Iowa Republican Party chairman said Thursday that if Sarah Palin seeks the presidency, she shouldn't think she can win the GOP nomination without seriously participating in the first-in-the-nation caucuses.

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