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This photo provided by the French Army shows a pilot checking a French Mirage 2000 jet fighter at the military base of Dijon, central France, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world have launched immediate military action to protect civilians as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces attacked the heart of the country's rebel uprising. The Mirages 2000 are operating in Libya. (AP Photo/ Anthony Jeuland; SIRPA AIR) NO SALES (AP)

U.S., allies strike Libyan targets from air and sea

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Military command assesses damage from first round of Operation Odyssey Dawn
This Saturday, March 19, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) as it launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn from the Mediterranean Sea . The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Moammar Gadhafi's forces from the air on Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Jonathan Sunderman) (AP)

Libyan TV claims 48 killed in allied attacks

Associated Press
The report from the state could not be independently verified but said 150 were also wounded

Gadhafi calls U.S.-led intervention “crusader aggression”

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Dictator says government is opening up weapon depots to arm Libyans against Western forces
President Barack Obama makes a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama: U.S. will not send ground troops to Libya

Ben Feller
President says U.S., allies had no choice but to launch limited military operations against Gadhafi forces
A rafale jet fighter takes off at the military base of Saint Dizier, eastern France, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world have launched immediate military action to protect civilians as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces attacked the heart of the country's rebel uprising. (AP Photo/ ECPAD, Sebastien Dupont) NO SALES (AP)

U.S. launches air strikes on Libyan defense

Robert Burns
American intervention begins as more than 110 cruise missiles target Gadhafi's forces
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, with Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff, right, during their joint news conference at the Palacio do Planalto in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Obama welcomed Brazil's rise as an economic power and said the United States would be an eager customer for its oil exports as he opened a Latin America tour against the backdrop of an escalating Western military showdown with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama links Brazil trip to U.S. job growth

Jim Kuhnhenn
President emphasizes importance of trade with Brazil to economic growth back home
ALTERNATIVE CROP - A doomed warplane plummets towards earth after it was shot down by anti-Gadhafi forces over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. An object, thought to be the pilot, was seen to eject from the cockpit shortly before impact. Explosions shook the Libyan city of Benghazi early on Saturday while a fighter jet was heard flying overhead, and residents said the eastern rebel stronghold was under attack from forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

U.S. to target Libyan military with cruise missile strikes

AP/Salon
United States and western allies set out to protect Libyan rebels in Benghazi from Gadhafi's brutal incursions
President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama says coalition prepared to act in Libya

Ben Feller
President says U.S., allies are prepared to "act with urgency" to end Gadhafi regime's campaign of violence
A cooling tower of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., looms behind an abandoned playground, March 30, 1979. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma) (Barry Thumma)

How nuclear regulators became captive to industry

Justin Elliott
Can the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- which even Barack Obama called "moribund" -- keep our power plants safe?
Smoke billows over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Explosions shook the Libyan city of Benghazi early on Saturday while a fighter jet was heard flying overhead, and residents said the eastern rebel stronghold was under attack from Gadhafi's forces. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Gadhafi strikes rebels as diplomats mull action

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Government forces assault the rebel stronghold of Benghazi while world leaders consider military intervention
President Barack Obama walks out to make a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

CBO: Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillion

Associated Press
A difference in the Congressional Budget Office's optimism and the administration's accounts for the discrepancy
President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama to Gadhafi: Stop or face military action

Bradley Klapper
The President offered a firm warning and announced he's ready to send air and sea troops to North Africa
The Ferry Building in San Francisco along the Embarcadero

Minuscule nuclear fallout reaches California

Associated Press
How minuscule? "About a billion times beneath levels that would be health threatening," says diplomat
In this photo released by the Democracy Now! TV and radio show on Thursday March 17, 2011, the former President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, right, sits inside on an airplane with daughters Michaela, 12, left, and Christine, 14, moments before takeoff in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday March 17, 2011. Aristide, who was forced to flee Haiti due to a rebellion in 2004 aboard a U.S. plane, will return after seven years of exile in South Africa, days before Haiti's presidential runoff election Sunday. (AP Photo/Amy Goodman/DemocracyNow.org) (AP)

Aristide returns to celebrity welcome in Haiti

Associated Press
The former Haitian president returns home after a 7-year exile, and is greeted by an ecstatic public
Sarah Palin and Charlie Sheen

Independents, Democrats would vote for Charlie Sheen over Sarah Palin

Drew Grant
A new poll shows a disturbing lack of bipartisanship. Do we really want a convicted abuser running the country?

Red vs. blue: The great Midwestern backlash

Andrew Leonard
New GOP governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan are suddenly unpopular. The economy gives, and it takes away
This image taken from video shows rebels on the back of a vehicle in the area of Benina, a civilian and military airport, outside Benghazi in eastern Libya Thursday March 17, 2011. Libyan rebels shot down at least two bomber planes that attacked the airport in their main stronghold of Benghazi Thursday, according to residents who witnessed the rare success in the struggle against Moammar Gadhafi's superior air power. (AP Photo/APTN) (AP)

Libyan forces attack Benghazi, the last rebel-held western city

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
As UN allies hurry to enforce the no-fly zone, Gadhafi's troops storm Libya's second largest city
President Barack Obama makes a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama on presidential war-making powers

Glenn Greenwald
As candidate, he insisted that presidents lack the power to enter conflicts without approval. What will he do now?
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. Right: Jeff Merrifield

Ex-regulator flacking for pro-nuke lobby

Justin Elliott
Jeff Merrifield was a top regulator for the much-criticized NRC. Now he's on Fox defending nuclear power
A man watches TV showing a Japanese military helicopter dumping water on the troubled reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, at an electronics retail store in Osaka, western Japan, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan’s nuclear power plant battle may take weeks, U.S. says

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi
Scientists are doing everything they can think of to keep the pools that hold used nuclear fuel from drying up
Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller

Dan Savage is coming for your kids

Tracy Clark-Flory
And thank goodness for that. The sex writer and "It Gets Better" creator has a message for homophobic parents
American Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo) (AP)

UN votes 10-to-0 in favor of no-fly zone in Libya

Edith M. Lederer
Russia, the U.S. and others vote in favor of the resolution. Five countries, including China, abstain
A woman holds her dog as they are scanned for radiation at a temporary scanning center for residents living close to the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (AP)

Officials: No radiation danger to U.S. or territories

Associated Press
Obama said that the radiation leaking from a damaged nuclear power plant will not harm those on American soil

President O’Bama? Irish-American relatives identified

Cristian Salazar, Randy Herschaft
The President's ancestry can be traced back to the Emerald Isle
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