Mar 10, 2010 Politics
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.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish Brown’s memoir, currently untitled, in early 2011.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
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.”

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
Health insurers are a frequent and easy target, of course, but the question is whether their profits are responsible for higher health care costs or whether they’re just a symptom of them.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
With NASA’s space shuttle program coming to an end and the future of the manned space flight in doubt, President Obama is facing intense pressure over his budget priorities for the space agency.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
Denying that he groped anyone sexually, former Rep. Eric Massa said Tuesday that he was responsible for the events leading up to his resignation Monday in the wake of a House ethics investigation into sexual harassment allegations.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year has won key GOP support that means it will soon pass the Senate.

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Mar 10, 2010 Politics
The White House says the United States condemns Israel’s approval of 1,600 new settlement homes in disputed East Jerusalem.

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