After e-mail pleas and nationwide canvassing, President Obama’s political arm has made a TV ad that will air Thursday, urging voters to pressure Congress to approve his $3.6 trillion budget. “America is facing tough times,” the narrator says in the 30-second ad. “President Obama has a plan to get our economy moving again, to cut the deficit in half and create jobs by investing in health care, energy independence and schools.
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Turkish party leader missing after helicopter crash
Commentary: GOP means ‘Got 0 Plans’
Behind the scenes: Ed Henry’s take on exchange with Obama
Attorney: Suu Kyi detention breaks Myanmar law
25 dead in 5 days of battles in Kashmir
Octuplets’ mom fires free nursing service
Nadya Suleman, the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, has fired a nonprofit group of nurses charged with helping care for her children, CNN affiliate KTLA has reported. Suleman accused the nurses, from a group called Angels in Waiting, of spying on her to report her to child-welfare authorities, the affiliate reported Monday. The group was working for free, the affiliate said.
Q and A: How the toxic assets plan will work
David Letterman marries longtime girlfriend
Apocalyptic ‘Knowing’ hits anxious chord
The numbers were good for "Knowing." The film, about a physics professor who sees clues for disastrous events in a time capsule’s list of digits, overcame some pretty long odds at the box office — going against the Paul Rudd-Jason Segel comedy “I Love You, Man,” the Julia Roberts-Clive Owen romantic thriller “Duplicity” and some fairly scathing reviews — to emerge as the weekend’s No. 1 film