Obama hits Fox News  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel.  —  Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native, who said “Immigrants have made America great as the world leader in business …

Bin Laden death now part of Obama's re-elect message  —  President Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Austin, Tex. Tuesday.  (Jim Young/Reuters)  —  Reporting from Austin, Tex.— Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is now an applause line in a presidential campaign speech.

House Republican Budget Plan: State-By-State Impact of Changes in Medicaid Financing  —  This analysis projects the state-by-state impact of converting Medicaid into a block grant and eliminating the planned expansion of the program by repealing the health reform law, as called for under the House Budget Plan.

Humbled Gingrich to launch 2012 bid  —  Sees strength in adviser team  —  Newt Gingrich vowed Tuesday that his 2012 run for the GOP presidential nomination will be free of the intellectual arrogance and personal disorganization that he concedes marred his tenure as speaker of the U.S. House in the 1990s.

Boeing Is Pro-Growth, Not Anti-Union  —  Washington's actions have assaulted the capitalist principles that have sustained America's competitiveness since it became the world's largest economy nearly 140 years ago.  —  Deep into the recent recession, Boeing decided to invest more than $1 billion in a new factory in South Carolina.

How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology  —  Since the last realist president, George H.W. Bush, left office, two groups— neoconservatives and liberal interventionists—have overtaken American foreign policy  —  The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

Osama Bin Laden Raid: Pakistan Hints China Wants a Peek at Secret Helicopter  —  Pakistani officials said today they're interested in studying the remains of the U.S.'s secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid of Osama bin Laden's compound, and suggest the Chinese are as well.

President to Renew Muslim Outreach  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S.

In Washington, You Don't Need To Know Anything About Policy To Be a Senator Or Chair Important Commissions  —  Here's an important fact about the United States of America.  Since 1940, advances in prenatal, neonatal, and pediatric medicine have massively reduced early in life deaths.  This is common sense.

Southern border is more secure, but not thanks to Obama, says Cornyn  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) conceded this week that security on the Mexican border has improved under the Obama administration - but not, he said, because of the president's policies.  —  “We are better than we were …

Obama fundraises in Austin, Texas  —  President Obama's take from his Austin, Texas, fundraisers is $2 million, a Democratic source said Tuesday.  —  More than 50 attendees paid $35,800 - the maximum legal limit - to dine with the president at a private residence.

Irish Bombshell: Government Raids PRIVATE Pensions To Pay For Spending  —  The Irish government plans to institute a tax on private pensions to drive jobs growth, according to its jobs program strategy, delivered today.  —  Without the ability sell debt due to soaring interest rates …

After Bin Laden, U.S. Reassesses Afghan Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — The killing of Osama bin Laden has set off a reassessment of the war in Afghanistan and the broader effort to combat terrorism, with Congress, the military and the Obama administration weighing the goals, strategies …

Palin and Trump: It's complicated  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Donald Trump have formed a political bond, one united by their populist ideology and contempt for the mainstream media.  —  Their kinship grew during the height of the birther controversy.

Republican Electoral Strategy: Don't Let the Democrats Vote  —  The Texas Legislature passed two bills yesterday that on the surface look like good governance measures but are actually efforts to discourage the Democratic base from voting.  The state Senate approved a bill requiring voters …

Jon Huntsman hires former Haley Barbour aide  —  Jon Huntsman has added former Haley Barbour communications aide James Richardson to his campaign-in-waiting.  —  Richardson informed friends and colleagues of the move in an email Tuesday.  “Wanted to send word your way that I've saddled …

Ill. lawmaker says raising obese kids should cost parents at tax time  —  • An Illinois lawmaker says parents who have obese children should lose their state tax deduction.  —  “It's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids,” said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga.

Health reforms ‘will benefit most vulnerable in society’  —  The “most elderly, infirm and vulnerable” in society will receive “enormous benefits” from the Coalition's controversial health reforms, a group of senior GPs who represent seven million patients declare today.  —  Andrew Lansley, the embattled Health Secretary

Neo-Nazi Father Is Killed; Son, 10, Steeped in Beliefs, Is Accused  —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor.  It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia of the Nazi SS.