Local control of school curriculum may soon be a thing of the past.

By Justin Baer and Francesco Guerrera in New York
US regulators have told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares until political and economic uncertainty surrounding the industry dissipates, in a move that will delay by months the return of capital to shareholders.

By Chelsea Schilling
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At least 36 state legislatures are considering legislation that would allow citizens to opt out of a key component of President Obama’s health-care “reform” – an “individual mandate” requiring that all Americans have health insurance.

by Mark Thomas | IRN/USA News
In a press release Monday, the Republican Senator from Mississippi says that the Obama Administration’s intent to scuttle future plans to send astronauts to the moon could cause “America to fall behind in scientific research and jeopardize billions of taxpayer dollars that have been invested in the international space station.” [...]

by Karey Wutkowski | Reuters
March 9,2010
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Banking Committee drafting financial reform have “about reached a balance” on the controversial consumer watchdog proposal, Republican Senator Bob Corker said on Tuesday, indicating a bipartisan deal could be reached soon.

by Laura Meckler | The Wall St. Journal
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is unapologetic regarding his recent trip to Miami for heart surgery.  

Police in Suwanee, Georgia say Phillip Chad Dunn is accused of stabbing his wife to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot where they met to exchange custody of their two children. 

House and Senate Republicans say unless President Obama agrees to shelve bills already passed by Democrats, they doubt there will be a bipartisan accord on healthcare reform. 

ORLANDO, Fla. — The American Red Cross says a plan to bring 45,000 evacuees from Haiti to Florida, and 4,000 of those to Orange County, is not set in stone. The Red Cross clarified Friday who could be involved in a plan to move people out of Haiti.

By John Solomon and Carrie Johnson
Special to The Washington Post and Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 19, 2010; A01

The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and [...]

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – Chai Feldblum, the Georgetown University law professor nominated by President Obama to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has written that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, that may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”