Nancy Pelosi and Lamar Alexander on ABC's 'This Week' - Politics Daily
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER, R-TENN. [*] (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VARGAS: Good morning, and welcome to "This Week." The health care summit. Did it make any difference? OBAMA: I hope that this isn't political theater. VARGAS: The parties came together CANTOR

Quake sent surging waves throughout Pacific Rim - Philadelphia Inquirer
HONOLULU - With a rapt world watching the drama unfold on television, a tsunami raced across a quarter of the globe yesterday and set off fears of a repeat of the carnage that caught nations off guard in Asia in 2004. Japan, still bracing for the

Ocean-crossing tsunami lightly swipes Asian coasts - San Francisco Chronicle
A tsunami that raced across the Pacific swiped island nations and Asian coasts lightly Sunday, proving to be more spectacle than destructive force for communities that had hours to prepare after Chile's devastating earthquake. Hundreds of thousands

Canada wins gold chase at Vancouver Games - NBC Olympics
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- With a surge of victories down the home stretch, Canada assured itself of winning the most gold medals at the Vancouver Olympics and set a record for most golds by any host of a Winter Games. Its brash pre-Olympic

Tsunami warning ends after waves hit Japan - MSNBC
Picturesque beaches were desolate, million-dollar homes were evacuated, shops in Waikiki were closed and residents filled supermarkets and gas stations to stock up on supplies. But after the morning scare, the islands were back to paradise by the

Some lawmakers said no to stimulus bill, but not its cash - YAHOO!
WASHINGTON — Democrats dubbed them "highway hypocrites," the mostly Republican lawmakers who voted against last year's $862 billion economic stimulus bill but tried to get money from it for projects in their home states. Idaho's three Republicans