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• Gingrich to soon be an ex-presidential candidate
• AdWatch: Obama ad says Romney sent jobs overseas
• Romney national security spokesman resigns
• Online simulator lets average Joe slay U.S. debt dragon
• Jobs growth seen rebounding in April
• Group stirring independent WH bid hits obstacle
• Wal-Mart to pay $4.8 million in unpaid overtime
• Rudy Giuliani Marks OBL Anniversary With Mitt Romney at NY Firehouse
• Romney national security spokesman resigns
• Five arrested in alleged Cleveland plot to blow up bridge
• Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
• U.S. Medicare to cover Edwards Sapien heart valve
• Yankees' Pettitte tells court Clemens discusses drug use
• Mitt Romney Takes Manhattan: Eats Pizza, Visits Firefighters, Gets an Earful
• AdWatch: Obama ad says Romney sent jobs overseas
• Romney: Obama shouldn't use bin Laden in campaign
• Obama: Afghan war not over but light on horizon
• Obama's Drug Czar Stumps for 'Third Way' Policy
• Occupy takes May Day protests to streets
• U.S. health centers for poor, uninsured see ranks swell
• Health centers for poor, uninsured see ranks swell
• Mexico presidential front-runner with steady lead-poll
• Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of bin Laden's death
• Social Security starts providing online statements
• UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to run company
• Romney accuses Obama of politicizing bin Laden anniversary
• New York man convicted in subway suicide bomb plot
• Exclusive: U.S., EU, South Korea, Japan urge sanctions for North Korea firms
• Romney foreign policy spokesman resigns under fire
• Romney accuses Obama of politicizing bin Laden anniversary
• The Afghan war by the numbers
• Political parties ignore Asian Americans: poll
• Obama, Karzai Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement

Gingrich to soon be an ex-presidential candidate Posted: A presidential candidate no longer, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich departs the race for the White House as likely the most consequential and certainly the most interesting Republican of his time never to sit in the Oval Office.

AdWatch: Obama ad says Romney sent jobs overseas Posted: TITLE: "Swiss Bank Account"

Romney national security spokesman resigns Posted: Mitt Romney's national security spokesman has resigned after critics questioned his conservatism because he is gay.

Online simulator lets average Joe slay U.S. debt dragon Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ditch the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and cut school breakfasts for poor kids, or raise taxes on the rich. On second thought, scratch those and raise the retirement age. It is your choice in an online debt-reduction simulator that a quarter million Americans already have played. Known as "Stabilize the U.S. Debt," the game created by a bipartisan group of experts, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will never be as much fun as "Mortal Kombat Komplete," but serious gamers likely would find it just as difficult to master. ...

Jobs growth seen rebounding in April Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hiring by U.S. employers likely rebounded in April, which could ease worries the economy has stumbled into a soft patch. Businesses outside the farm sector are expected to have added 170,000 jobs last month, according to a Reuters survey, after rising a meager 120,000 in March. The unemployment rate is seen holding at a three-year low of 8.2 percent. "It will allay any fears regarding a lapse in the economy," said Millan Mulraine, an economist at TD Securities in New York. ...

Group stirring independent WH bid hits obstacle Posted: A group clearing the path for an independent White House bid on Tuesday canceled the first phase of its search for a bipartisan ticket because declared and draft candidates aren't mustering enough preliminary support.

Wal-Mart to pay $4.8 million in unpaid overtime Posted: (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc agreed to pay $4.8 million in back wages and damages to thousands of employees for unpaid overtime after a probe by the U.S. Department of Labor found that the retailer had violated a federal law governing overtime pay. Wal-Mart will also pay $463,815 in civil fines. According to the Labor Department, Wal-Mart failed to pay overtime to certain employees, considering them to be exempt from overtime requirements, when they were in fact not exempt. ...

Rudy Giuliani Marks OBL Anniversary With Mitt Romney at NY Firehouse Posted: Rudy Giuliani returned to the national stage today in a familiar role: America's Mayor. He won that nickname for the reassuring leadership he provided to New York and to the nation in the chaotic hours after the Sept. 11 attacks. He put that image to...

Romney national security spokesman resigns Posted: Mitt Romney's national security spokesman has resigned after critics questioned his conservatism because he is gay.

Five arrested in alleged Cleveland plot to blow up bridge Posted: WASHINGTON/CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge, but they were caught by an FBI undercover sting and had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. The suspects, ranging in ages from 20 to 37, placed what they believed were bombs on the bridge last night and tried to detonate them by calling and sending text messages to cell phones attached to the explosives, authorities said. ...

Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post Posted: ABC News' Arlette Saenz and Michael Falcone report:   Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign policy spokesman for the Romney campaign, resigned from his recently-appointed post on Tuesday, ABC News has confirmed. "We are disappointed that Ric decided to resign from the campaign for his...

U.S. Medicare to cover Edwards Sapien heart valve Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare and Medicaid federal health insurance programs will cover the non-invasive Sapien heart valve replacement system from Edwards Lifesciences Corp, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. The Sapien system, which is threaded to the diseased heart through an incision in the groin or ribs via the femoral artery, is meant for patients deemed too sick to have heart valve replacement using more traditional open-heart surgery. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Sapien valve, which is estimated to cost about $30,000, in November. The U.S. ...

Yankees' Pettitte tells court Clemens discusses drug use Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Yankees' pitcher Andy Pettitte testified on Tuesday that former teammate and close friend Roger Clemens admitted to taking human growth hormone during a conversation they had while working out together in 1999 or 2000.

Mitt Romney Takes Manhattan: Eats Pizza, Visits Firefighters, Gets an Earful Posted: NEW YORK – It's been a whirlwind, New York City kind of day for Mitt Romney,  including a celebrity funeral, slices of pizza and a curse-word screaming -protester. The presumptive GOP nominee cris-crossed the island of Manhattan, holding a private meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

AdWatch: Obama ad says Romney sent jobs overseas Posted: TITLE: "Swiss Bank Account"

Romney: Obama shouldn't use bin Laden in campaign Posted: Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that it was "totally appropriate" for President Barack Obama to claim credit for taking out Osama bin Laden a year ago but that his decision to politicize a unifying event for the country was not.

Obama: Afghan war not over but light on horizon Posted: BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned U.S. troops of further hardship ahead in Afghanistan but told them "there is a light on the horizon" after more than a decade of war. "The battle is not yet over," he told a cheering crowd at Bagram airbase outside of Kabul during a visit to Afghanistan. "There is going to be heartbreak and pain and difficulty ahead. But there is a light on the horizon because of the sacrifices you've made." (Reporting By Matt Spetalnick)

Obama's Drug Czar Stumps for 'Third Way' Policy Posted: To hear President Obama's drug czar tell it, the leading voices on drug policy are kind of crazy. "Over the past few years, this public debate on drug policy lurches between two extreme views," White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske...

Occupy takes May Day protests to streets Posted: NEW YORK/OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered outside banks, meditated in public parks and staged anti-corporate song-and-dance routines on Tuesday in a May Day bid around the United States to revive a movement that triggered nationwide protests last year against economic injustice. Hundreds of protesters in Oakland, California, clashed with baton-carrying police who fired flash-bang grenades and used a loudspeaker to order demonstrators to disperse from an intersection, in just one of numerous demonstrations that unfolded in U.S. cities. ...

U.S. health centers for poor, uninsured see ranks swell Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. community health centers that cater to the poor and uninsured saw their patients' ranks swell by nearly 18 percent from 2008 to 2011 as job loss left more Americans without health insurance, the Obama administration said on Tuesday. A report released by the White House said 20 million Americans now receive healthcare services through 8,500 community health centers, up from 17 million four years ago. "Those numbers really took a big jump," Mary Wakefield, who heads the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, told reporters. ...

Health centers for poor, uninsured see ranks swell Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers that cater to the poor and uninsured saw their patients' ranks swell by nearly 18 percent from 2008 to 2011 as job loss left more Americans without health insurance, the Obama administration said on Tuesday. A report released by the White House said 20 million Americans now receive healthcare services through 8,500 community health centers, up from 17 million four years ago. "Those numbers really took a big jump," Mary Wakefield, who heads the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, told reporters. ...

Mexico presidential front-runner with steady lead-poll Posted: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), saw his big lead over the ruling party candidate recede slightly ahead of the July 1 election, a survey showed on Tuesday. The latest opinion poll by pollster Consulta Mitofsky showed Pena Nieto with 38 percent support, down 2.1 percentage points from the Mitofsky survey published on April 24. That still gave him a big lead over Josefina Vazquez Mota from the ruling National Action Party (PAN). Her support of 22 percent was up just 0. ...

Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of bin Laden's death Posted: KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to conclude an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the unannounced trip in darkness on the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Shortly after he arrived, Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed the strategic partnership pact, which sets out a future U.S. role in Afghanistan, including aid and advisers, while trying to reassure Afghans that they will not be abandoned when most NATO combat troops leave in 2014. ...

Social Security starts providing online statements Posted: The Social Security Administration is now providing workers with online statements of the estimated benefits they will get when they retire, replacing the paper ones the agency used to mail out.

UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to run company Posted: LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said on Tuesday, finding him ultimately responsible for the illegal phone hacking that has corroded his global media empire and damaged the political establishment. The lawmakers said the 81-year-old News Corp chief lacked credibility, his son James appeared incompetent and the company was guilty of "willful blindness" towards its staff at the News of the World tabloid. ...

Romney accuses Obama of politicizing bin Laden anniversary Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden, while the U.S. president flew to Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the daring raid. Although overshadowed by Obama's unannounced trip, Romney staged some September 11 symbolism of his own, eating pizza with firefighters and former mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Manhattan firehouse that lost 11 firefighters in the 2001 attacks. ...

New York man convicted in subway suicide bomb plot Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury found a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen guilty on Tuesday of planning a coordinated suicide bomb attack on New York City subways in 2009 at the behest of senior al Qaeda operatives. Adis Medunjanin, 28, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison following his conviction on all nine charges, including conspiring to carry out a suicide attack on American soil, receiving military training from al Qaeda and plotting to kill U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. ...

Exclusive: U.S., EU, South Korea, Japan urge sanctions for North Korea firms Posted: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan have submitted a list of about 40 North Korean companies to the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee for possible blacklisting due to Pyongyang's recent rocket launch, envoys said on Tuesday. The committee, which includes all 15 Security Council members, is awaiting a response from China regarding which, if any, of the firms Beijing will consent to adding to the U.N. list of banned North Korean firms, diplomats told Reuters on the condition of anonymity. "The U.S. ...

Romney foreign policy spokesman resigns under fire Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, has resigned after only a brief stint on Romney's presidential campaign. The Washington Post reported that the openly gay Grenell had been hounded from the campaign by anti-gay conservatives. Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades said in a statement that Grenell, hired last month, decided to leave for personal reasons that he did not specify. "We are disappointed that Ric decided to resign from the campaign for his own personal reasons. ...

Romney accuses Obama of politicizing bin Laden anniversary Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden, while the U.S. president flew to Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the daring raid. Although overshadowed by Obama's unannounced trip, Romney staged some September 11 symbolism of his own, eating pizza with firefighters and former mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Manhattan firehouse that lost 11 firefighters in the 2001 attacks. ...

The Afghan war by the numbers Posted: President Barack Obama arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The deal outlines the next phase of the U.S. role in Afghanistan after combat missions wind down at the end of 2014.

Political parties ignore Asian Americans: poll Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fast-growing Asian American community is largely untapped by the presidential candidates and their political parties even though they are expected to vote in record numbers this fall, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. The Lake Research Partners poll showed that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders identified themselves as Democrats over Republicans by a three-to-one margin. But only about a third of them said they had been contacted by their party in the past two years. ...

Obama, Karzai Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement Posted: KABUL — In the atrium of the King's Residence in the Afghan Presidential Palace, Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement, laying out details of the US/Afghanistan relationship from the withdrawal of US troops in 2014 through 2024. After Karzai thanked...

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