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The pro-life Democrat leading the charge in the House against passage of the Senate health insurance reform bill said Friday that a key committee chairman told him that Democrats want abortions to be paid by a federally-funded nationalized health insurance system.

Restaurant chain owner Nick Giannis and two others are accused of writing $2 million worth of bad checks from accounts at a bank owned by candidate Alexi Giannoulias' family.

Sen. Arlen Specter took a shot at his Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary opponent on Friday, suggesting Rep. Joe Sestak was milking his claim that the White House offered him an administration position if he dropped his challenge to Specter.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.

President Obama has pushed back his trip to Indonesia for three days to work with beleaguered Democrats on trying to wrap up a health care overhaul. 

The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 0.3 percent in February, surpassing expectations that sales would decline by 0.2 percent.

The chief executive of the charity closing doors for lack of funding earned nearly $1 million in 2008 while officials spent $4.3 million on travel, $1.6 million on conferences, conventions and meetings and $544,000 in lobbying fees.

Sarah Palin is expected to head to Knoxville, Tenn., next month to testify in U.S. District Court against a University of Tennessee student who allegedly hacked the former Alaska governor's personal Yahoo! e-mail account.

In a shocking statement on the Utah House floor, Kevin Garn, 55, said he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was a minor a quarter century ago.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel emerged from a meeting in the Capitol with top Democratic lawmakers Thursday night saying, "We made a lot of decisions. We're getting towards the end."