Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies  —  Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill  —  In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators …

Honduran leader forced into exile  —  Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution.  —  After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers.

'I'm better off dead.  I'm done': Michael Jackson's fateful prediction just a week before his death  —  Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson.  Had he not been driven - by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers …

E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming  —  The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government …

Debating The Iran Question On CNN's Reliable Sources  —  This morning, Dana Milbank, Amanda Carpenter, and I appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz.  —  It was a spirited affair and folks can draw their own conclusions.  Here's the video:

Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture  —  WASHINGTON — For 15 minutes in the Oval Office the other day, one of President Obama's top campaign lieutenants, Steve Hildebrand, told the president about the “hurt, anxiety and anger” that he and other gay supporters felt over the slow pace …

Transcript: David Axelrod and Sen. Charles Grassley  —  White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Ia.  —  ABC'S “THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS”  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning and welcome to “This Week.”  —  OBAMA: We're going to get it done.

Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's ‘Dreams’  —  Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition.

Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s—t’  —  Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday.  —  When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night …

Obama Warns Against Trade Penalties in Energy Bill  —  WASHINGTON — A day after strongly praising energy legislation passed by the House, President Obama on Sunday spoke out against a provision in the bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept global-warming pollution limits.

There They Go Again: Fixing the Primary Process  —  There is no end to the complaints about the way the two political parties select their presidential nominees.  As the litany goes, the process begins too early, gives undue influence to a handful of small, unrepresentative states …

In Tehran, a Mood of Melancholy Descends  —  TEHRAN — An eerie stillness has settled over this normally frenetic city.  In more settled times, the streets are clogged with honking cars and cranky commuters grousing about the lack of decent parking.  —  But on Saturday, few cars and relatively few people were on the streets.