AP - There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

AP - Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt will not run for re-election, the seven-term Democrat said Thursday night, a decision he said was not politically motivated as he faces criticism for his handling of a 1986 shooting by a University of Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues last month.

CQPolitics.com - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the year and not seek a third term, ending any mystery about whether he would seek to overturn his state's two-term limit.

AP - The Obama administration on Tuesday gave the public a peek at the Bush administration's classified plan to secure the nation's computer systems, but the newly revealed list of broad goals provided few surprises and key provisions remain secret.

AP - The Empire State has a lot to recommend it — Broadway shows, Niagara Falls, and baseball's World Series champions, the New York Yankees. But politics? As the locals would say, Fuhgeddaboudit.

Politico - Here's a list of people who'll help determine whether Dems can get a reform bill through.

AP - A Navy captain was demoted because she berated and assaulted her crew, not because she led her guided missile cruiser on a drag-race with another U.S. warship in the Pacific, an investigation shows.

AP - No-drama Obama was bound to get fireworks when he chose the expletive-spewing, hotheaded, never-at-rest Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff. The only questions were when — and how big.

AP - Anger and Soviet nostalgia are sweeping Russia after its dismal showing at the Vancouver Olympics, triggering a purge of sporting officials in an effort to prevent another humiliation when the nation hosts the Winter games in Sochi in 2014.

AP - The well-dressed gunman mortally wounded after firing at and injuring two Pentagon police officers was armed with two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and carried several magazines of ammunition, the chief of the Pentagon police said Friday.

Politico - POLITICO's Arena contributors discuss if the RNC's fundraising tactics were out of line.

Politico - Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only institution held in low esteem by voters this year. 

AP - A U.S. Marine commander says there are no immediate plans to pull back the 4,000 Marines and Afghan troops in the Afghan town of Marjah until the local government has a chance to get up and running.

AP - Western powers pressed for new sanctions against Iran on Thursday but China and Russia called for diplomatic negotiations as the best way to achieve a peaceful settlement of the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.

Politico - A new Quinnipiac poll shows 42 percent of voters think the New York governor should resign.

Politico - Former Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee plans to drop out of the governor's race, according to reports, after announcing his candidacy just last week.

Reuters - The U.S. envoy to the United Nations accused Sudan on Thursday of 'cavalier' violations of U.N. sanctions aimed at limiting the flow of arms and curbing violence in its conflict-torn Darfur region.

AP - Turkey says it is recalling its ambassador to the U.S. for consultations following a resolution declaring the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I genocide.

AP - Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta's parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.

Politico - Most are stopped by automated system defenses, but cyberattackers have become smarter.

Politico - The full-body imaging machines can detect explosives hidden under passengers' clothing.

AP - One of the two police officers shot by a gunman outside the Pentagon says he is doing fine and credits God for shielding him.

AP - Internet postings linked to the suspected gunman in a Pentagon subway shooting suggest long-held frustration with the government's reach into the private life of Americans.

AP - Law enforcement officials say the California man who opened fire on police outside the Pentagon stopped at a motel in Reno, Nevada, before traveling to the nation's capital.

AP - The Obama administration is urging Congress to hold off on a resolution declaring that the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians was genocide.

AFP - US Republicans drew fire this week after the disclosure of an internal fundraising memo that portrays President Barack Obama as the Batman films' crazed killer 'The Joker.'

Politico - Searching for a permanent host for 'This Week,' ABC News is in talks with Christiane Amanpour.

CQPolitics.com - The ascension of Rep. Sander M. Levin to the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee relieves some political pressure on House Democrats, but it does not resolve the question of who will lead the panel over the long term.

AP - The family of Amanda Knox has asked lawyers to begin their appeal of the American's murder conviction in Italy after reviewing the court's motivation for the verdict.

AP - A London jury has acquitted the wife of a convicted bomb plotter of failing to pass on information to authorities.

AFP - With new indirect Middle East peace talks on the horizon in the coming days, the Obama administration is under pressure to bring the Palestinians and the Israelis closer to an elusive accord.

CQPolitics.com - At first glance, a pair of bills introduced this week by two West Virginia Democrats -- Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV and Rep. Nick J. Rahall II -- look like fresh attempts to rebuff a White House plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Politico - Rob Bickhart is the official behind this week's RNC fundraising presentation.

Politico - The Georgia Republican also attacks Obama as a 'socialist' during an interview with Sirius XM.

Reuters - There are no plans at this point for the full U.S. House of Representatives to vote on a resolution branding as genocide the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces, a Democratic leadership aide said on Friday.

AFP - A senior US official will head Sunday on a trip through Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, part of the Obama administration's renewed focus on Southeast Asia.

AP - Looking to breathe life into President Barack Obama's stalled pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House advisers are inching toward recommending military trials for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen.

Politico - The news comes after reports that he was under investigation.

AP - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.

AP - New York Rep. Eric Massa, facing an ethics panel probe, is apologizing to his constituents as he resigns his seat.

AP - A list of federal reservoirs by state that were not initially authorized for water supply but are now being used for that purpose:

AP - A Dutch court has extended for 14 days the detention of a man suspected of flying passenger jets with a forged license.

Reuters - Potential Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama on Friday for his recent attacks on health insurance companies.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Washington has its moments when the nation's capital shines for all the world to see. Inaugurations. The Fourth of July.

AP - The river of discontent running through America turned toxic in the fevered mind of the Pentagon shooter and others of his ilk. In a culture awash in conspiracy theories and raw anger at government, they are lone wolves who find a sense of community for their hate — yet act alone.

AP - The so-called 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan is mired in bureaucracy and may not succeed in time to help the war effort, a State Department report found.

AP - Former congressman Tom Campbell on Friday used the first debate in the California Senate race to demand that his challengers not engage in a 'whispering campaign' claiming he is against Israel or is an anti-Semite.

AP - As of Friday, March 5, 2010, at least 929 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

Reuters - A top lawmaker said on Friday he is holding a hearing to examine the need for legislative reform after the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress.

The Christian Science Monitor - Abandoning plans to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court could allow the Obama administration to finally close the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

AP - As of Friday, March 5, 2010, at least 930 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

AP - Three conservative regions of Spain defended bullfighting on Friday and pledged legislation to enshrine it as a pillar of their cultural heritage, as another area of the country considers banning the sport.

CQPolitics.com - The Democratic field to succeed retiring Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) began to shake out just hours after he made his retirement announcement official on Friday.

Politico - Pelosi is insisting abortion isn't a make or break issue, but Stupak is threatening to block the bill.

AP - An ever-widening sexual abuse scandal involving Germany's Roman Catholic Church spilled into the heart of Pope Benedict XVI's homeland Friday when a former member of the prominent Regensburg boy's choir claimed he was a victim.

AFP - US President Barack Obama pledged to reduce both the number and the role of nuclear weapons as he recommitted himself to the abolition of the ultra-destructive arms.