AP - An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

The Christian Science Monitor - North Korea is spurning United Nations demands to stop public executions, torture of prisoners, and other endemic violations of human rights in the aftermath of the reported execution of the senior official responsible for disastrous economic reforms.

AP - A man who used his dog to attack a teenager whom he then stabbed to death was sentenced Friday to at least 24 years in jail for murder.

AP - Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve:

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — People with ties to Glenn Beck's 9-12 Project, Tea Party Boise and other conservative causes plan a protest outside Rep. Walt Minnick's office this weekend, with the claim that the Idaho Democrat co-sponsored one of the health care bills that Congress is considering.

CQPolitics.com - As the House nears a high-stakes vote on health care legislation Sunday, Democratic leaders are still searching for votes.

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.

Robert Bobb will be the featured panelist at the first 2010 session of Pancakes & Politics forum today at the Detroit Athletic Club downtown.

framing this weekend's expected House action on healthcare reform as "historic," called on Congress to rise above politics and do something for the good

“Politics to him is just bargaining and deals.” Mr. Chalabi has been accused of political opportunism in forging his alliance with Shiite extremists,