Analysis: Outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim (AP)
GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care (AP)
Stores try to max out on Palin visits (Politico) Politico - With 29 announced stops, that adds up to at least 72,500 copies of her book - just from the stores she is visiting. Landrieu leans yes in Sat. cliffhanger (Politico) Politico - Landrieu and Lincoln hold the keys to the kingdom. Ethics committee: No punishment for Burris (AP)
Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan (AP)
Senate Democrats eye key US health care victory (AFP)
US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard (AP)
Black firefighters object to white promotions (AP) AP - A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
AP - The Obama administration is shifting the focus of its Iran policy from talk to sanctions, but the prospect of winning early international support for toughened new penalties appears dim.
AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
AP - The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.
AP - There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.
AFP - Democrats in the US Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system.
AP - The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
