Obama Signs Stimulus & More

WSJ: President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping economic package in decades, a rescue plan designed to create millions of jobs, spur consumer spending and revive the nation's outlook.  More...

Politico: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Tuesday unveiled a new bank rescue plan that includes a "new consumer business lending initiative to leverage up to $1 trillion dollars to kick start the secondary lending markets."  More...

Politico: Sen. Judd Gregg abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, telling Politico that he “couldn’t be Judd Gregg” and serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet.  More...

WSJ: Less than a month after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office, in part for allegedly trying to auction off a U.S. Senate seat, the man he finally appointed to that seat was forced to defend himself against calls for his own resignation.  More...

WSJ: There are 343 colleges playing Division I basketball. They're spread all over the map -- 24 in California, 13 in Louisiana, at least one in every state save Alaska. And yet, three of the very best hail from the same narrow strip of North Carolina tobacco country.  More...

Politico: Senate passes $787 billion stimulus bill.  More...

McClatchy: Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no.  More...

WP: Wall Street slams plan with sell-off.  More...

Bloomberg: U.S. taxpayers risk $9.7 trillion on bailout programs.  More...

AP: Fact check: Obama has it both ways on pork.  More...

N&O: Shuler hits Democratic leaders on bipartisanship.  More...

US News: Republicans trail Obama Dems by only one point in poll - anti-stimulus push is working.  More...

Reuters: Iraqis open arms to romance as violence fades.  More...

Times: Cloud of debris girdling earth after satellites crash.  More...

The Sun: Nuclear submarines collide under Atlantic.  More...

AP: Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela.  More...

NY Post: Chimp victim hanging onto life.  More...

IHT: Wi-Fi takes to the skies.  More...

Telegraph: Televisions to be fitted in contact lenses.  More...

Daily Telegraph: Bushfire inferno toll rises in Australia.  More...

AP: McDonald's January sales up 7.1 percent.  More...

AP: China monthly auto sales overtake US for 1st time.  More...

Telegraph: Obama throws Joe Biden under the bus.  More...

N&O: Obama not taking sides in UNC-Duke.  More...

OPINION:

WSJ: The real stimulus burden- We'll be paying for then for many years.  More...

Rove: Obama's legislative victory comes at high cost.  More...

Brooks: The worst-case scenario.  More...

Krauthammer: Iraq- Good news is no news.  More...

WSJ: Obama's antiterror progress- he embraces bush policies.  More...

Friedman: The open-door bailout.  More...

Brooks: Showing some discipline.  More...

Ferrara: Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics.  More...

Schiller: Obama's rhetoric is the real catastrophe.  More...

Noonan: Is 'Octomom' America's future?  More...

Morris: Our deadly debt- How stimulus prolongs pain.  More...

Morris: Benedict Arnolds of the GOP.  More...

Limbaugh: No concensus on stimulus bill.  More...

Frum: The wrong war at the wrong time.  More...

Kibbe: Obama should channel Harding, not FDR.  More...

WataugaWatch: Shuler speaks out against his party's leadership.  More...