Poll: Reid's re-election numbers don't add up  —  CARSON CITY — Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.  —  About a third of the state's voters …

Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers  —  Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full.  Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards …

CIA Officials Fear That New Rules May Hinder Interrogations  —  Intelligence Officials Privately Warn That New Rules May Hinder Their Interrogations  —  Battered by recriminations over waterboarding and other harsh techniques sanctioned by the Bush administration, the CIA is girding itself …

Steele Threatens to Quit if RNC Undermines Funding Authority  —  Michael Steele, who is delivering a speech Tuesday on the future of the GOP, says some of the animosity in the RNC is from people in the party who supported other candidates for chairman.  —  FOXNews.com

Anderson Cooper Says “Teabagging” Comment Was “Stupid, Silly”  —  CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke at UCLA Sunday as part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, and was asked about his “teabagging” comment last month during the Q&A portion.  —  Here is a video of his response, taken by an audience member.

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't  —  General Motors Corp's (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

The Guy Behind the Palin Pick  —  RICK'S PICK  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can thank Washington lobbyist and political consultant Rick Davis, chief executive officer of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, for being the ultimate pick to become the Republican vice presidential candidate.

The President's hair  —  The caption from the White House Flickr feed: “The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own.”  —  post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)  —  The son of a White House staff member during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009.

Obama Avoids Test on Gays in Military  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to accept an appeals-court ruling that could undermine the military's ban on service members found to be gay.  —  A federal appeals court in San Francisco last year ruled that the government must justify …

The Old Time and the New Newsweek  —  Twenty-seven years ago, I began my professional career at Time Magazine as a reporter-researcher in the World section, which was devoted to international news.  Generally speaking, the World section ran 12 pages in the magazine.

Gingrich signs on to GOP re-branding effort  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has signed on to the latest high-profile effort to re-brand the Republican Party — but don't expect to see him take a major leadership role for the National Council for a New America …

Poll: Democrats and Repulicans agree on photos  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - It isn't often that Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye.  But on the thorny question of whether photos of U.S. military personnel allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners should be released, a new national poll suggests Democrats and Republicans appear to agree.

Rumsfeld disputes GQ report  —  An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld “appreciated” the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings …

Dan Brown's America  —  The movie treatment of his novel, “Angels and Demons,” is cleaning up at the box office this week.  The sequel to “The DaVinci Code,” due out in November, might bouy the publishing industry through the recession.  And if you want to understand the state of American religion …

Rep. Hoekstra: Only I'm Allowed To Accuse The CIA Of Lying  —  In recent days, conservatives have been on a media blitz accusing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of lying last week when she said that she believed she had been “misled” by the CIA during intelligence briefings regarding the use of torture.

DCorps: New Survey Reveals Obama Closing the Democrats Historical National Security Gap  —  Democracy Corps  —  Research Categories … Executive Summary  —  A new Democracy Corps poll released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner today shows that after 100 days in office, President Barack Obama has …

GOP kingmaker leans toward Mitt  —  Fred Malek, a heavyweight Republican fundraiser and kingmaker, has singled out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the GOP's leading contender in the early stages of the 2012 Republican presidential derby.  —  In a largely unnoticed post to his blog late last week …