SPB News for Monday

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush cancel appearances in L.A., N.Y.

Ensign moves out of home on C Street

Health-care protesters at Lieberman's office

Health-care protesters at Lieberman's office

Al Qaeda videos give an indication of new plots FBI agents in the US have recovered two highly inflammatory Al Qaeda videos. The videos have been recovered from the house of Pakistan-born Canadian, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested last month along with another accused, David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American national. The new videos were taken from the house of Rana, who has been living in Chicago for nearly a decade.

Hezbollah gears up for new war --Fighters rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears that Israel is about to launch attack on Islamic group Hezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities... In dramatic further evidence of growing tensions, the Observer has learned that Hezbollah fighters have been busy reinforcing fixed defence positions north of the Litani river. Having lost many of its bunkers in the south, Hezbollah is preparing a new strategy to defend villages there.

Manitoba polar bears may woo Obama's daughters Businesses in Churchill, Man., say they’ll roll out the red carpet -- and the tundra buggy -- if the most famous kids in the world want to come and see the polar bears. "That would be kind of big," Belinda Fitzpatrick, co-owner of the Tundra Inn in Churchill said Thursday after U.S. President Barack Obama’s daughters, Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11, were invited to the polar bear capital of the world. On Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Gary Doer and his family met with Obama and invited his daughters to Manitoba to see Churchill’s polar bears.

Lone GOP vote came after call from President Obama — Washington (CNN) - Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao was the only Republican to vote in favor of the Democratic health care bill that passed the House late Saturday, a vote that came after President Obama called to personally to ask for his support, Cao told CNN.

Cao: Health Care Vote Was Proper Decision For My District
Appearing on State of the Union, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) explained his vote for the House health care bill. "I felt last night's decision was the proper decision for my district even though it was not the popular decision for my party," said Cao, also adding: "A lot of my constituents are uninsured, a lot of them are poor. It was the right decision for the people of my district."

Last week's poll had asked:

President Hamid Karzai's rival in the Afghan run-off poll has pulled out of the election. Has he made the right decision? The majority of readers answered yes. This week's poll is now up.