Cancer Research Before Activism, Billionaire Conservative Donor Says  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — More than a thousand miles from the labor tumult in Wisconsin — where his name shows up on the signs of protesters and a liberal blogger impersonating him got through to the governor on the phone and said “gotta crush that union!”

REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans  —  Main Street Movement consisting of ordinary Americans fed up with living in such an unequal country has fought back.  —  Conservatives have sought to malign this movement by claiming that it is simply defending the parochial interests …

Why America Will Stay on Top  —  Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi.  —  London  —  In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history …

Isthmus, Wisconsin Associated Press sue Gov. Scott Walker over access to emails  —  Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press today filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott Walker over his office's failure to respond to open records requests regarding emails received by his office.

Sherrod Brown apologizes for Hitler comment  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), under heat for invoking Adolf Hitler in talking about anti-union movements in his home state and Wisconsin, has apologized for making the comparison on the Senate floor.  —  “I am passionate about fighting for the middle class.

‘Good’ Jobs Report Has Dark Side  —  We created 192,000 headline jobs in the February employment report.  It's not enough, but it certainly is welcome news and it is heading in the right direction — although too slowly.  —  We also learned from the February report that the unemployment …

Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite  —  A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.

Judge orders protesters out of Wisconsin Capitol  —  MADISON, Wis. — Capping two weeks of sit-ins, pro-union protesters cleared out of the Wisconsin Capitol on Thursday night after a judge ordered their removal.  The judge also ruled the state had violated the public's free speech …

Are whites racially oppressed?  —  White marchers gather at Glenn Beck rally this summer.  Were they driven by racial fears or patriotic sentiment?  —  (CNN) — They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.  —  They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.

DeMint throws new wrench into legislative process  —  WASHINGTON — A bloc of Senate conservatives, led by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, flexed their muscles Thursday, pledging to block any bill they alone deem wasteful or unconstitutional.  —  Seven other GOP senators joined DeMint's effort …

Libya Blocks Internet Traffic  —  After slowly returning to the Internet, Libya has gone again.  —  At about 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday Internet traffic coming in and out of Libya dropped to nearly zero, where it remains, according to Google's Transparency Report.

Man arrested in bomb scare at Heartland Aviation released on bond  —  The man who was arrested for a bomb scare Wednesday at Heartland Aviation has been released on a $3,000 signature bond.  —  Patrick J. Knauf, 43, of Eau Claire was arrested for the violation of making a bomb scare under state statute 947.015.

The Wisconsin Wobblies  —  Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote.  —  Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote.