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Obama rallies support for final health care votes (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks about healthcare reform at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails."


Ohio Democrat switches to 'yes' on health care (AP)
AP - Democratic Rep. John Boccieri of Ohio is switching his vote to "yes" on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Clinton says agreement with Russia near on nukes (AP)

From left, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton talk to each other posing for a family photo after the news conferences in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators - the U.S., Russia, the EU and the United Nations.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.


Tanker contract back in play (Politico)
Politico - After pulling out last week for the lucrative contract, EADS says it's rethinking entering the competition.
Keep Medicare in Congress's hands (Politico)
Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors express concern over the health care bill's handling of Medicare.
Come back to the table, Israelis and Palestinians are urged (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seen during talks  in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators — the U.S., Russia, the EU and the United Nations. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel's latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state.


Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care (AP)

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama's health care legislation in the House, with the intense lobbying and politically targeted changes to the bill winning over an Ohio Democrat on Friday.


Pelosi: House will have assurance on Senate vote (Reuters)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) confers with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) after President Barack Obama signed the HIRE Act, a job growth initiative, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said that when the House of Representatives votes on the healthcare bill, lawmakers will have assurance that the legislation will also be passed by the Senate.


A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2007, file photo, the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a 19th century slave revolt, flies Sierra Leonean and American flags as it sails into port in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, the original West African homeland of many of the Amistad captives. In March 2010, the stately black scooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights — the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby. It's a replica of the Cuban slave ship that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives only to become an icon of the abolitionist movement.  (AP Photo/Nazia Parvez, File)AP - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba.


Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row (AP)
AP - The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty.
Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists (AP)

In this June 26, 1997 photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown a 1997 booking mug of Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. The new reality that there is a threat from violent Islamic extremism from within the U.S. It is difficult to say whether the uptick in cases is because law enforcement has gotten better at catching suspects or if there are simply more to catch. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.


Court finds recent Walesa biography slanderous (AP)
AP - A Polish court says a biography of former President Lech Walesa is slanderous and has fined the publisher and ordered it to apologize.
Turkey indicts 33 in alleged coup plot (AP)
AP - Authorities have indicted 33 people in an alleged secularist plot to destabilize Turkey and overthrow the government.
Obama's hails weekend's 'historic' health vote (AFP)

Supporters of health care reform hold a rally in Los Angeles on March 17. US President Barack Obama Friday hailed this weekend's AFP - President Barack Obama Friday hailed this weekend's "historic" congressional vote on his health plan as the culmination of a century of struggle, at a euphoric campaign-style rally.


Insurance-rate regulation dropped from latest health bill (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A Democratic plan for new federal power over health insurance rates was dropped Thursday from the final health care bill, squeezed out by the way the Democrats are pushing the bill through Congress.
Senate Democrats Crafting Broad Message Campaign (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Senate Democrats are planning an aggressive message campaign between now and November focusing on jobs, national security, the immediate impact of health care reform and their party's efforts to "take on Wall Street."
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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