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U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, May 21, 2009.   REUTERS/Larry Downing/FilesAP - Democratic congressional leaders showed signs of progress Monday in winning anti-abortion Democrats whose votes are pivotal to President Barack Obama's fiercely contested remake of the health care system.


Tue Mar 16 00:51:28 -0500 2010

FILE - In this March 11, 2010 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, welcomes Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for bilateral talks at the prime minister's official residence and office, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.


Tue Mar 16 00:56:46 -0500 2010