Politico - He becomes the second TSA nominee to withdraw his nomination.

CQPolitics.com - The Republican National Committee will ask the Supreme Court to lift 'soft money' contribution bans, teeing up the next major high court challenge to federal campaign finance laws.

AP - In his time as an archbishop in Germany, a cardinal at the Vatican and then after becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger has overseen at least four cases involving allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and church workers. A glance at the cases.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday a new law he'll sign next week will save the federal government billions and help give college students more help paying tuition.

Politico - “This was a momentous week for America,” Obama said.

Politico - There is deep concern among Israel's allies on Capitol Hill.

The Christian Science Monitor - A federal judge has upheld the new regime of gun laws passed in Washington, D.C., after the US Supreme Court invalidated the city’s handgun ban in a landmark Second Amendment ruling two years ago.

AP - The U.N. chief is hailing the agreement between the United States and Russia to cut their nuclear arsenals as an 'important milestone' on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons.

AP - In a story March 23 about the Big Bang Machine, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the record attempt would be at energy 3 1/2 times higher than the previous record in the Large Hadron Collider. The comparison should have said three times higher, not 3 1/2 times higher.

AFP - US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have finalized a historic new deal to cut long-range nuclear arms, agreeing to slash the number of deployed warheads by a third.

AP - Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America's health care system, a vast overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals.

AP - After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.

AP - Repeal the new health care overhaul and replace it with something better, says the Senate's top Republican, who led a solid wall of GOP opposition to the Democratic plan.

AFP - The United States asked the World Trade Organization Friday to intervene in a longstanding dispute with the Philippines over taxes on whiskey and gin, following an impasse in bilateral talks.

AP - Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable after graduation, President Barack Obama says.

Reuters - President Barack Obama's second pick to oversee U.S. transportation security has withdrawn from consideration, the White House said.

AP - An administration official says President Barack Obama will nominate health care scholar Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the nation's health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor.

Reuters - President Barack Obama has picked a top health policy expert to run Medicare and Medicaid, an administration official said on Saturday, filling a role at the heart of his historic healthcare reform.

AP - The U.S. says an Iraqi-American contractor said to have been kidnapped in Baghdad in January by Shiite militiamen is back in American hands.

AP - Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.

AP - The name, perhaps more than the content, of a new U.S.-Russian arms treaty — dubbed the 'New START' — conveys President Barack Obama's message about the direction of superpower relations.

Politico - Palin fires back at critics who say that she has encouraged harassment of House Democrats.

AP - Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America's health care system, an overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals.

AP - Europe will be a 'paper tiger' in military terms unless it reverses the decline in its defensive capabilities, NATO's chief warned Saturday.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday announced he would make 15 recess appointments held up by Republicans, including two top Treasury Department positions and two on the National Labor Relations Board that have been vacant for more than a year.

Politico - Bypassing the Senate, Obama uses recess appointments to seat 15 nominees.

AP - After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reignited a partisan fight over appointments Saturday when he announced his intention to fill 15 key vacant administration positions -- that normally require Senate approval -- while Congress is adjourned for vacation.

Politico - The protest features sensitivity towards the coverage of the threats and vandalism targeting Dems.