Insurance firms Direct Line and Churchill – both owned by the RBS group – have been fined £2.17m for tampering with customer complaint files.

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Insurers fined for file tampering

Roughly 200,000 files released.

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New Documents Shed Light on MLK

In a suburban Virginia living room, Earline Coe, solid Democrat and Obama loyalist, dials again. “Hello, may I speak with Ellen?” she says, tapping a pen on a long list of names. It is supposed to be a good list, one generated by the Obama campaign’s data wonks in Chicago, who have sorted their files of millions of voters and identified these as likely recruits in a renewed version of the vaunted grass-roots operation that propelled Obama’s 2008 victory. Read full article > >

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Obama’s backers put out calls for support

Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, newly-released National Archives files show.

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Thatcher ‘debated arming police’

The House Committee on Ethics said Thursday that it was extending an investigation into the conduct of Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), who has previously come under scrutiny for reimbursements made to his employees for campaign donations. The announcement by Chairman Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and ranking member Linda T. Sanchez (D-Calif.) marks another political challenge for Buchanan, the senior Republican fundraiser in the House, who is also facing a separate Justice Department probe. Read full article > >

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House ethics panel extends probe of Fla. GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan

Newt Gingrich had planned a mostly quiet weekend, a short break from the rigors of the campaign trail after a busy week. Instead, he was on the phone all Saturday morning, holding a tele-town hall with Iowans and later a conference call with reporters. He apparently realized he cannot afford to rest when his candidacy is on the line. Read full article > >

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Gingrich’s time of testing arrives

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has been taken to the woodshed by an arbitrator who gave the agency a good spanking. It’s a lesson to bosses all across the government. At first glance, the case involving the BBG’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting appears to be a routine one about the level of involvement the agency allowed a labor union when layoffs were ordered. Read full article > >

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Arbitrator thrashes Cuba Broadcasting over worker treatment

Press Complaints Commission files complaint.

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Daily Mail Posted Wrong Knox Verdict

Read our full coverage of the Kennedy Center Honors and profiles of each recipient.) On Sunday night, the Kennedy Center and President Obama honored five of America’s national treasures in the arts: actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, actress and singer Barbara Cook, and musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Sonny Rollins. Read full article > >

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Kennedy Center Honors: Who will win in 2050?

The geologist who conceived it called it the poor man’s space program. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fumed that it was a waste of taxpayer dollars. Meteorite hunter Ralph Harvey simply calls it work. For the 35th year, the United States is mounting its annual campaign to gather space rocks from the wind-hammered icefields of Antarctica. Read full article > >

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At the bottom of the world, a controversial search for cosmic leftovers

Things sure do change fast around here. One week it’s Rick Perry, the next it’s Herman Cain. Now it’s . . . Newt Gingrich ? The Republican voter is like a starving man at a free buffet. He gorges on this, then that, then spies a steaming plump pork roast at the far end of the table. Charge! (No anatomical parallels intended. I’m a little hungry myself.) Read full article > >

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Why Republicans like Newt Gingrich

Update. 1:12 p.m : According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Long’s wife has withdrawn her divorce petition. Bishop Eddie Long’s wife had filed for divorce , according to a statement released Friday by Vanessa Long’s attorney. Read full article > >

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Report: Eddie Long’s wife rescinds divorce papers

The Senate late Thursday rejected competing partisan visions for extending a temporary tax break that benefits virtually every American worker, clearing the way for more serious negotiations over how to cover the cost of the tax cut. All but a handful of Democrats voted in favor of their party’s proposal, but in a surprising turn, more Republicans voted against the GOP plan than in favor of it. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) predicted this week that a majority of his conference would vote for the party’s plan to extend the payroll tax cut. Read full article > >

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Payroll tax break: Extension proposals from both parties fail in Senate

Reportedly files for an annulment.

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Humphries: Marriage to Kim a Fraud

PHILADELPHIA — The man who filed the first sex-abuse lawsuit against ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says he feels tormented after learning others were allegedly abused after him. The 29-year-old writes in a statement: “I am hurting and have been for a long because of what happened, but feel now even more tormented that I have learned of so many other kids.” Read full article > >

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New accuser files 1st lawsuit against Penn State, Sandusky; says he was abused over 100 times