Harry, Louise and Barack  —  Is this the end for Harry and Louise?  —  Harry and Louise were the fictional couple who appeared in advertisements run by the insurance industry in 1993, fretting about what would happen if “government bureaucrats” started making health care decisions.

White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney  —  There's a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars.  —  Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and release …

Greta Handling Todd  —  The increasingly surreal nexus between Greta van Susteren, her Hillarybot super-lawyer husband, the Super Adventure Club, the Palins and, er, journalism, just got weirder:  —  POLITICO started to chat with Alaska's “first dude” when Van Susteren intervened.

U.S. Soldier Kills 5 Comrades in Iraq, Military Says  —  BAGHDAD — The United States military said Monday that five American soldiers had been shot to death by a fellow soldier who opened fire on them at one of the biggest American bases in Baghdad, and that the suspected shooter was in custody.

Poll: Obama, headed to Middle East, is winning Arab hearts  —  WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to journey to Egypt on June 4 to address the Muslim world, his overtures to the Middle East are paying off in positive feelings towards him from Arab peoples that far outpace …

Journalist Roxana Saberi freed by Iranian appeal court verdict  —  Roxana Saberi, an American journalist convicted in Iran on spying charges, is to be freed after an appeals court downgraded her sentence.  —  Roxana Saberi is due to be released  —  Lawyers for the 32-year old said the court …

Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse  —  It was as though Vice President Biden time-warped back to last fall.  Because on Sunday he was in full campaign attack mode.  —  Oh, it was an idyllic setting.  Nobody saw it coming.  The vice president had just finished delivering …

Biden's Advisory Role Expands to Supreme Court Pick  —  The person in the White House most knowledgeable about Supreme Court nominations sits in the vice president's office.  —  With President Obama filling his first high court vacancy with the retirement of Justice David H. Souter …

al-Libi Dies in a Libyan Prison  —  We have been talking heavily about torture, renditions and the legal and motivational justifications therefore nonstop for the last couple of weeks.  But one of the earliest entries in this sordid tale (witness the December 18, 2001 entry on Marcy's Torture Timeline) …

Administration Plans to Strengthen Antitrust Rules  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's top antitrust official this week plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that use their market dominance to elbow out competitors or to keep them from gaining market share.

Casey weighs in on Dem leaders' support for Specter  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Pennsylvania's junior Sen. Bob Casey appeared to open the door Sunday for a possible challenger to Arlen Specter, the state's senior senator and a newly-minted Democrat.  —  Casey seemed to part ways with his party's leadership …

Crist Senate bid could threaten GOP control in Fla.  —  Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) candidacy would provide a good bit of clarity in a jumbled Senate race, but it would throw his home state's government — and the recent GOP control — into serious flux.

SEIU may be linked to ultimatum on withholding stimulus funds  —  California officials say the union may have influenced a federal requirement that a pay cut be reversed for home healthcare workers.  —  Reporting from Sacramento — Officials in the governor's office say a politically powerful union …