Obama legacy at stake as health vote looms (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama is leading his Democratic allies in an all-out campaign to win over wavering lawmakers ahead of a cliffhanger Sunday vote on his historic health care overhaul.
Obama ditches Indonesia, Australia trip over health care (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama Thursday dramatically postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June, as he wages a vote-by-vote struggle to drive his health reform bill through Congress.
Obama scraps Asia trip as health plan faces Sunday test (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to help steer his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.
Indictment says Ky. man threatened Obama in poem (AP)
AP - A Louisville man has been indicted on a charge of threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a poem posted on a white supremacist Web site.Obama predicts Congress will pass health overhaul (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama confidently declared Wednesday that his historic health care overhaul legislation would pass, as the bill faced a cliffhanger weekend vote likely to define his legacy.
Episcopal church approves 2nd gay bishop (AP)
AP - The Episcopal Church has approved the election of a lesbian assistant bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, making her the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican global fellowship, diocese officials said Wednesday.Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama ‘birthers’ (AP)
AP - Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.
Obama fills out tournament bracket again for ESPN (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama predicts Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky and Villanova to make the men's basketball Final Four.In Florida, Can Crist Turn the Tide Against Rubio? (Time.com)
Time.com - A growing chorus of pundits is suggesting that Crist should not even try to battle the resurgent right, but instead run in the November general election as an independentObama demands ‘courage’ as health care vote looms (AFP)
AFP - Barack Obama Monday demanded courage from Democratic lawmakers unnerved by looming final votes on his historic health care plan in a pivotal political week that may shape his presidency.