Health Care: Cost Estimates may Scuttle Plan

Wal-Mart Backs Employer Health Care Insurance Mandate
When the world’s largest retailer backs something like this, it’s hard to ignore. Especially since they’ve had such a spotty record when it came to covering their 2 million...

Marines posed with Nazi SS symbol in Afghanistan (AP)
AP - The Marine Corps confirmed Thursday that one of its scout sniper teams in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS.

States, Feds to announce mortgage settlement (AP)
AP - Federal officials say a deal has been reached between states and the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses.

AP sources: New Pentagon rules on women in combat (AP)
AP - Pentagon rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

For Santorum, new challenges follow his big wins (AP)
AP - One day after Rick Santorum's startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was...