Top Stories

Boston Globe: Dodd bill aims to overhaul financial regulatory system 2010-03-16

On nearly all of the key issues, the measure takes a relatively tough line with financial firms. A new consumer protection agency, for instance, would have the authority to write and enforce rules that would apply to banks with more than $10 billion in assets, as well as mortgage companies, credit card issuers, and other large nonbank lenders — a broader scope than Republicans have been willing to grant.

 

Reuters: Recession left "walking wounded" workers: study 2010-03-16

Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.

 

The Hill: Obama calls for courage 2010-03-16

There are at least three dozen House Democrats who are planning to vote no or are leaning no, according to The Hill’s whip list. If every member votes and all Republicans vote no, 37 defections would lead to a 216-215 tally. Thirty-eight “no” votes would kill the measure.

 

Boston Globe: Stevens considers retirement decision 2010-03-16

Justice John Paul Stevens, leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing and its oldest justice at 89, said he will certainly step down before President Obama’s term expires in January 2013.

 

Boston Globe: Obama makes urgent pitch for health bill 2010-03-16

President Obama, displaying new urgency in the final days of the health care debate, sought yesterday to rally skittish House lawmakers into voting for his signature health care overhaul, calling for political “courage’’ in the capital.

 

Washington Post: House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it 2010-03-16

The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.

2010-03-16: Headlines

2010-03-15: Top Stories

Bloomberg: Obama, US Governors Favor "College-Ready" School Standards 2010-03-15

Obama is scheduled today to present to Congress a blueprint for transforming the No Child Left Behind law, which uses testing to gauge student achievement, into a measure that would offer schools more flexibility in demonstrating academic progress. Governors and chief schools officers on March 10 proposed specific grade-level requirements for reading, writing and math.

 

EuropeNews: Obama and the Denial of Genocide 2010-03-15

The Obama administration, citing its relations with Turkey, has pledged to block the passage in the full House of Representatives of a resolution passed this past Thursday by the Foreign Relations Committee acknowledging the 1915 genocide by the Ottoman Empire of a 1.5 million Armenians.

 

BBC News: Thai PM rejects protest ultimatum 2010-03-15

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has appeared on national TV to reject a demand from demonstrators that he quit by midday and call elections.

 

Belfast Telegraph: At least 30 killed in suicide bombings 2010-03-15

A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.

 

Washington Post: Three with links to US Consulate in Juarez are slain 2010-03-15

The White House said President Obama was "deeply saddened and outraged" by the slayings, which occurred in broad daylight.

 

New York Times: Haiti's Do-It-Yourself Recovery 2010-03-15

In the second world, where the Haitians are, people can’t afford to wait for helping hands. Life is improvised, fluid, dire, sometimes desperate but not panicked. The people seemed immune to whining. They were busy doing what needs doing.

2010-03-15: Headlines
2010-03-16T09:41-07:00