Exclusive: Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course - sources  —  (Reuters) - Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators …

Pelosi: O-Care won't hurt Dems  —  Republicans are “wasting their time” using ObamaCare as an electoral issue, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said Thursday.  —  Days after the healthcare law was seen as a decisive issue in her party's special election loss in Florida …

Boston Beer Company, Sam Adams Cancel Participation in the St. Patrick's Day Parade  —  For questions regarding this statement, please contact:  —  Boston Beer Company  —  Statement from the Boston Beer Company:  —  “We have been participating in the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade …

EXCLUSIVE: FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee  —  Agents quietly working with Utah prosecutors to make case in DOJ absence  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)  —  FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors …

ELECTION 2014: Lindsey Graham challenger calls SC senator “ambiguously gay”  —  COLUMBIA, SC — Four of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's announced challengers in June's Republican primary pledged support for each other Thursday if any of them end up in a runoff with the Seneca incumbent.

Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits in Frustration With Bureaucracy  —  The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the “remarkably dysfunctional” federal bureaucracy.

CNN Poll: Most see Russia as a threat to U.S.  —  Washington (CNN) - As the crisis in the Ukraine continues, a new national poll indicates that for the first time in more than a decade, more than half of Americans  —  see Russia as a serious threat to the U.S.

Fear of Wages  —  Four years ago, some of us watched with a mixture of incredulity and horror as elite discussion of economic policy went completely off the rails.  Over the course of just a few months, influential people all over the Western world convinced themselves and each …

People Think We're in a Recession.  Don't Blame Them.  —  The United States economy emerged from recession in June 2009 and has been growing for nearly five years.  Yet this week, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of American adults found that 57 percent still think the economy is in recession.

Obama calls for review of deportations  —  The Hispanic Caucus has yet to formalize the resolution, but an earlier draft obtained by POLITICO calls on Obama to use “all legal means” to suspend, delay or stop deportations of immigrants if the removal would “have an adverse impact on the United States.”

John McCain cites Ronald Reagan, slams GOP on Ukraine aid  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped fellow Republicans on Thursday for objecting to a package of aid and sanctions to respond to the Ukrainian crisis, calling himself “embarrassed” and telling his GOP colleagues: “Don't call yourself Reagan Republicans.”

Warnings From the Ukraine Crisis  —  A new century's dangers begin to come into focus.  —  What has been happening in Ukraine is not a wake-up call precisely but a tugging at the attention, a demand to focus.  —  There's a sense that in some new way we are watching the 21st century take its shape and express its central realities.

Obama: ACA figures enough to work  —  Obamacare may not be beloved, but President Barack Obama says it's got enough customers to survive.  —  In a sit-down interview with WebMD posted Friday, the president dismissed any concern that people resisting the law could somehow keep it from functioning.

Resurrecting Republican Populism  —  If you want to cut to the heart of what's gone wrong in the Republican Party over the last two presidential cycles, you could do worse than start with this post from the liberal blogger Kevin Drum, lamenting the weakness of his own party's pitch to working and middle class voters:

Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots  —  See Also  —  Salesforce Just Disclosed A Really Odd Thing: It Doesn't Really Know Where Its Revenue Comes From  —  Big changes are coming to the labor market that people and governments aren't prepared for, Bill Gates believes.

In U.S., Most Do Not See Global Warming as Serious Threat  —  Nearly two in three believe global warming will happen during their lifetimes … PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans continue to believe that the effects of global warming are happening or will begin to happen during their lifetimes.

Putin Deports Executives for Speeding as Sanctions Loom  —  Even before the Ukraine standoff, foreign companies in Russia say they were alarmed by the number of executives being deported for minor infractions.  Now with the West preparing sanctions, they're bracing for more.