AP - President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Politico - Dodd says Dems can’t keep waiting for GOP.

Politico - Democrats and the Senate Budget Committee are signaling support for the move.

AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.

AP - Top Democrats say they are resolving disputes over President Barack Obama's health overhaul plan, but they face decisions on subsidizing coverage and are still hunting votes to push the vast package through Congress.

AP - Four legislators being prosecuted in a political scandal involving fraudulent expenses claims by hundreds of British lawmakers pleaded not guilty on Thursday.

Reuters - The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched toward a potential bust-up over Beijing's currency regime.

CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama has taken to nonstop demonizing of the insurance industry -- a sign of desperation over the prospects of passing health care reform.

AP - 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.

Politico - Surging libertarian streak in the new conservative movement worries the Christian right.

Politico - DeMint is positioning himself to be the tea party movement’s best friend in Washington.

AP - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, a person familiar with the selection said Friday.

Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors praise a new measure as much needed update for the 21st century.

AP - Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest.

AP - Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday.

Politico - Detroit congresswoman has been called to testify before a grand jury along with one of her aides.

AP - The U.N. humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza is not helping its security or weakening Hamas' hold on the territory.

Reuters - A Somali businessman linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a ransom paid for kidnapped French aid workers was a contractor for the World Food Program and UNICEF, a U.N. report said.

AP - The Labor Department says the unemployment rate for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 21.1 percent last year.

Politico - San Francisco Democratic mayor plans to launch a bid for lieutenant governor.

AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces at once: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.

Reuters - The House of Representatives Budget Committee on Monday will consider a reconciliation bill that Democrats hope clears the way for final congressional approval of an overhaul of U.S. healthcare, House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Friday.

AP - A 19th-century tunnel under the River Thames that was hailed as a wonder of Victorian engineering has reopened to pedestrians for two days.

AFP - Cambodia on Friday accused the United Nations of 'flagrantly interfering' in its affairs after local agencies expressed concern over a controversial anti-corruption law approved this week.

AFP - US President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco regional central bank chief Janet Yellen, a policy dove, as Federal Reserve Board number two, news reports said Friday.

AP - A senior U.S. official says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain bluntly about Israel's announcement this week of new housing settlements in East Jerusalem.

Politico - “Yes, I'm proud that we kept the world safer than it was,' former Bush adviser tells BBC.

Politico - Despite a barrage of attacks on his ties to Sami Al-Arian and his record on the Middle East, former Rep. Tom Campbell is still the most competitive Republican candidate against Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to a new Daily Kos/Research 2000 survey. And in the governor's race, eBay CEO Meg Whitman as the more formidable of the two Republican candidates, by far.

AP - The government warned Friday that those chic baby slings that hip moms and dads are sporting these days can be dangerous, even deadly for their little ones.

AP - Good evening sunshine, America says hello, you light up our evenings, we light charcoal below.

AP - A man says he was abused by a nun while a child — the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.

AP - Convicts in Georgia can now serve their time working for the Georgian Orthodox Church.

AP - Justice Department officials say that when senators were considering Eric Holder's nomination to be attorney general last year, he didn't given them all the legal briefs he had signed from his time in private practice.

Politico - The speaker vows to stay in session until the chamber comes to a vote on health care reform.

AP - The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in East Jerusalem.

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was at his wife's side in a Virginia hospital Friday as she was treated for a broken neck and back suffered in a traffic accident that also injured their daughter, officials said.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in.

AP - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said 'do extraordinary work.'

AP - Russia's envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance's battle with drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying it has led to a surge in heroin smuggling that is endangering Russia's national security.

The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations is not seeing widespread fraud that could affect the outcome of the Iraq election, but it is still waiting for details of hundreds of complaints launched by political parties, according to senior UN officials.

AP - The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, while hundreds of thousands of homeowners remain in limbo.

CQPolitics.com - Speaker Nancy Pelosi has outlined provisions of a health care 'corrections' bill that she hopes the House will pass next week, setting the stage for final congressional action on Democrats' health care overhaul.

Politico - At least six amicus briefs prepared or supported by AG didn't go to Senate.

Politico - Leaders announce designees for new commission on balancing budget.

AP - As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.

AP - President Barack Obama's likely choice of Janet Yellen to become vice chairman of the Federal Reserve would favor a policy that stresses low interest rates to ease unemployment over higher rates to curb inflation.

AP - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage.

AP - The troubled Justice Department unit that investigates corruption of public officials is getting new leadership amid a criminal probe into how it handled evidence in the prosecution of Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.

AFP - US President Barack Obama is giving 'strong consideration' to naming three officials to fill vacancies at the Federal Reserve board, the White House said Friday as he moves to revamp the central bank.

CQPolitics.com - Another round in the health care debate advertising assault were fired off Friday, with groups both for and against the Democratic-backed legislation dropping approximately $1.5 million on television and radio buys to push their side of the debate.

Politico - Secretary of state expresses opposition to Israel creating settlements in East Jerusalem.

AP - A British court has barred a far right, anti-immigrant political party from accepting new members until it stops discriminating against nonwhite people.

AP - Ukrainian lawmakers have filed a challenge to a law that allowed newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych to cement his grip on power.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, claiming that momentum is building for a historic overhaul of the nation's health insurance system, on Friday postponed a trip to Asia so he can stay in the capital next week to twist arms in Congress.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Schools may be gun-free zones, but the U.S. Department of Education is locked and loaded.

Politico - Eric Massa has provided a story line that's proven irresistible to right-wing media.

AP - The latest buzz word in the clubby world of British politics is 'hung Parliament.'

AFP - US President Barack Obama is strongly considering three candidates to fill vacancies at the Federal Reserve board, the White House said Friday as he moves to revamp the central bank.

AFP - Indonesian police and the military launched a series of anti-terror exercises on Saturday, a week ahead of a visit to the country by US President Barack Obama.