Pressure grows to sway fence-sitters on health bill

Jennifer Haberkorn

Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Friday morning she has not decided whether she's going to vote to allow debate to start on the health care reform ...

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• Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster in N.C.

  3 PM Mike Stobbe ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. Continue reading »

• Senate ethics panel scolds Burris

  12 PM S.A. Miller

  

  The Senate Select Committee on Ethics admonished Sen. Roland W. Burris on Friday for giving "inconsistent, incomplete and misleading" testimony about contact with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich prior receiving his senate appointment. Continue reading »

• After 25 years, Oprah to end show in 2011

  6 PM Caryn Rousseau ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision. Continue reading »

• EXCLUSIVE: Hoffman considering recount claim

  9 AM Maria Stainer

  

  Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said on Friday he is considering filing a recount claim in light of computer irregularities that have been reported. He has until Monday to make that decision. Continue reading »

• Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan

  9 AM Kathy Gannon ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said. Continue reading »

• Military seeks to predict PTSD

  7 AM Alicia Chang ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. Continue reading »

• New Pap guidelines for women in 20s

  7 AM Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS

  Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. Continue reading »

• NYC jury could spare prime 9/11 suspect

  5 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty. Now comes the trial of professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack. Continue reading »

• Army lacks guidelines to deal with jihadists in ranks

  5 AM Audrey Hudson

  

  The Army has guidelines on how to deal with racist views and actions within the ranks, but none on how to deal with Islamic jihadism, a former Army vice chief of staff told Congress on ... Continue reading »

• Obama's S. Korea visit free of major protests

  5 AM Lee Jong-heon UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

  

  President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was unusual for an American president in that there were no major anti-American protests. Continue reading »

• Karzai pledges to battle corruption

  5 AM Nicholas Kralev

  

  President Hamid Karzai began his second term in office Thursday with a pledge to fight corruption and by setting a goal for Afghan forces to take over security within the next five years. Continue reading »

• U.S. geologist held secretly in China

  5 AM Charles Hutzler ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. officials making a monthly visit during his incarceration in China. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing burns where interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm. Continue reading »

• Filmmaker: Sanctions on Iran insufficient

  5 AM Barbara Slavin

  

  Iranian filmmaker and dissident Mohsen Makhmalbaf said Thursday that the Obama administration should speak out more about human rights in his country and tailor new sanctions to hurt Iran's Revolutionary Guards and foreign companies that ... Continue reading »

• Italy remains a 'determined' ally

  5 AM Helene Franchineau THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, the newly appointed Italian ambassador to the United States, objected to the term "war" to describe the conflict in Afghanistan, but he said Italy had dropped restrictions that had kept its ... Continue reading »

• Senate health care bill creates new marriage penalty

  5 AM Stephen Dinan and David M. Dickson THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more. Continue reading »