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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
091117-N-9211M-181 PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 17, 2009) ñ JS Hyuga (DDH 181) steams through the Pacific Ocean during a 26 ship formation photo exercise while Seahawk helicopters from the Chargers, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 14, fly in formation alongside. George Washington, the Navyís only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier participated in a photo exercise which was the culmination of ANNUALEX 21G, the largest annual bilateral exercise with the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo by LT Reann S. Mommsen/RELEASED) (Reann S. Mommsen)

Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi
The desperate effort to keep the reactors cool in Fukushima is said to have little effect

Is Obama’s NCAA bracket really that big a problem?

Peter Finocchiaro
Some pundits are raising hell over the president's decision to predict March Madness amid global crises
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi, unseen, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was pressing Egypt's transitional leaders Tuesday to follow through on pledges for democratic reform after the ouster of the country's longtime autocratic president in a popular revolt.(AP Photo/Grace Kassab) (AP)

Clinton: No interest in job if Obama wins in 2012

Associated Press
Secretary of State says she's retiring from public service after 2012
France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, welcomes, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, for a Group of Eight Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, Tuesday, March 15, 2011.(AP Photo/Michel Euler) (Picasa 2.6)

Obama shows little hope for Libya no-fly zone resolution at UN

AP/Salon
The administration believes that no-fly zone would have little impact in Libya as Gadhafi nears rebel stronghold
President Barack Obama speaks at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya and Manning

Glenn Greenwald
In the news: A liberal consensus arises on Obama's detention defense, while war lessons seem never to be learned

House passes 3-week stopgap federal spending bill

Associated Press
54 Republicans voted against the measure, which would push back threat of government shutdown should Senate pass
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

Michele Bachmann has counted every member of the MSM

Alex Pareene
Congresswoman doesn't know where the American Revolution started, knows exactly how many people are smearing her
In this March 8, 2011, photo, President Barack Obama speaks about education at TechBoston Academy in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. Obama rode a wave of voter passion in 2008 fed largely by intense dislike of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war, plus excitement among young and minority voters at the notion of electing the nation’s first black president. Now, as Obama cranks up his re-election campaign, all those factors are absent. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (AP)

Obama presses Congress on rewriting education law

Associated Press
President urges reform of "No Child Left Behind" legislation
In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2010, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley speaks to reporters as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds during direct negotiations at the State Department in Washington. Crowley has resigned after causing a stir by describing the Army's treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as "ridiculous" and "stupid." Crowley said in a statement Sunday, March 13, 2011, that he took responsibility for the remarks, and that given their impact, he had submitted his resignation to Clinton. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (Associated Press)

WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemning abuse of Manning

Glenn Greenwald
P.J. Crowley out after denouncing treatment of Bradley Manning as "counter-productive and stupid"
Top left, clockwise: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour

Why Republicans should run in 2012 — to lose

Thomas Schaller
For some ambitious Republicans, President Obama's improving reelection prospects may not be bad news
Smoke ascends over an industrial area as flames are seen in Sendai, northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Radiation down at Japan nuclear plant after blast

Yuri Kageyama
Local media are reporting that as many as 1,300 people may be dead after yesterday's earthquake and tsunami
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